Failed

(imp. & p. p.) of Fail

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• Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Nay, he appeared so much otherwise, that his daughter's courage failed. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Matthew, sceptic and scoffer, had already failed to subscribe a prompt belief in that pain about the heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As the idea of citizenship failed and faded before the new occasions, there remained no inner, that is to say no real, unity in the system at all. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He succeeded, where Taft failed, in preventing that drought of invention which officialism brings. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The crusade saved the principality of Antioch for a time, but failed to retake Jerusalem. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• His ambition was to restore the empire of Jengis Khan as he conceived it, a project in which he completely failed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The crusaders beleaguered Prague, but failed to take it, and they experienced a series of reverses that ended in their retreat from Bohemia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• His attempt had utterly failed. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He flattered himself that it was opportunity, not audacity, which had failed him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• What sort of a woman she was, and how she came to be out alone in the high-road, an hour after midnight, I altogether failed to guess. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It failed after some preliminary successes and another great slaughtering of Russians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No creature came near her, as her strength failed. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But the power of expression failed her suddenly; she felt a tremor in her throat, and two tears gathered and fell slowly from her eyes. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• In brief, the commission failed to see that the working conscience of America is to-day bound up with the very evil it is supposed to eradicate by a relentless warfare. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I had been so confident of regaining the treaty at once that I had not dared to think of what would be the consequence if I failed to do so. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Like himself they had failed to grasp the necessity of entrusting the work of settlement to more specially qualified men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He had schemed, if he failed in his present attempt, without taking leave of any of us, to embark for Greece, and never again to revisit England. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The hopelessness and the imprudence of this proceeding failed to strike me before I had actually written the opening lines of the letter. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You had come across it like a beam of sunshine at first--and then you too failed me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It missed its mark, and completely failed, as is often the way with his tribe too. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• But, somehow, it had all failed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Warren led the last assault, one division at a time, and of course it failed. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• But even this encouragement failed, for he would go; and Lucy, who would have outstaid him, had his visit lasted two hours, soon afterwards went away. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• His last words had left a bad, harsh impression; he, at least, had failed in the disposing of a chance he was lord of. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I got as far as the schoolroom door; there my courage failed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• For Airy this was a crucial question; but to Adams it seemed unessential, and he failed to reply. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• When he had 'worked round,' as he called it, to Paris in his pilgrimage, and had wholly failed in it so far, he was not disheartened. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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