failings

英 [ˈfeɪlɪŋz]

美 [ˈfeɪlɪŋz]

n.  弱点; 缺点
failing的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 过错;缺陷;不足
  Thefailingsof someone or something are their faults or unsatisfactory features.
  1. Like many in Russia, she blamed the country's failings on futile attempts to catch up with the West...
     像俄罗斯很多人一样，她认为国家的错误就在于徒然地竭力追赶西方。
  2. He had invented an imaginary son, in order to make up for his real son's failings.
     为了弥补现实中儿子的不足之处，他就想象出了一个儿子。
• PHRASE (引出另一种选择)如果不能的话，万一不行的话
  You sayfailing thatto introduce an alternative, in case what you have just said is not possible.
  1. Find someone who will let you talk things through, or failing that, write down your thoughts.
     找个能让你把事情说清楚的人，如果不行的话，就把你所想的写下来。

双语例句

• All he could do was recite a list of Government failings
  他能做的只是列举政府的种种不是。
• When you love your job you dont gossip about the personal failings of others.
  当你热爱你的工作时，你不会对别人个人的失败品头论足。
• ARMAND: You made me see their failings, Louis.
  阿尔芒：你让我看到了他们的失败，路易。
• We all too easily point out our mothers 'failings.
  我们都太过轻易地指出母亲的缺点。
• He had his failings, but he was basically a good man.
  他有缺点，但本质上是一个好人。
• It is what it is, and so are you, with all your contradictions and faults and failings.
  它还是它，你也是。包括你所有的反驳，过失与弱点。
• In his resignation speech he blamed his failings on his blood type.
  在辞职演说中，他将自己的过失归咎于血型。
• Examination of performance before the crisis might reveal still more important failings.
  如果对其危机前的表现进行评估，可能会发现其失误更为严重。
• To admit shortcomings and inadequacies is the starting point for solving problems and overcoming weaknesses or failings.
  承认我们哪些方面有缺点，哪些方面还不足，这就是解决问题的起点，克服弱点、克服缺点的起点。
• I have some failings of my own to confess.
  我也要向你坦白我的过失。