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.- 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。 - 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。
- Like many in Russia, she blamed the country's failings on futile attempts to catch up with the West...
- 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.- 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。
- Find someone who will let you talk things through, or failing that, write down your thoughts.
双语例句
- I have some failings of my own to confess.
我也要向你坦白我的过失。 - We are men with the weaknesses and failings of men.
我们是男人，有男人的弱点和失算之处。 - Bankers need to acknowledge their failings. Attention can then turn to the important job of restoring their credibility.
银行家必须承认他们的不足，然后才应该将关注点转到另一件重要的事情上：恢复他们的信誉。 - 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。 - 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。 - Destiny: a tyrant's excuse for his own crimes and a fool's excuse for his failings.
命运：暴君为罪行找的借口和愚人为失败找的借口。 - In an unusual gesture for a Chinese official, Mr Hu acknowledged some of these failings.
胡四一承认了这方面的一些不足之处，这种姿态对于中国官员而言颇不寻常。 - We all too easily point out our mothers 'failings.
我们都太过轻易地指出母亲的缺点。 - I'm afraid you see so much of your neighbor's failings that you're blind to their virtues.
恐怕是你太注重邻居们地缺点而忽略了他们的优点。 - Far from reinforcing confidence in the courts, the trial highlights the continued failings of China's judicial system.
这场庭审与其说强化了人们对法庭的信心，不如说暴露了中国司法体系依然存在的缺陷。