讀音：英 [?fe?lj?] 美 [?fe?lj?r]?
釋義：失敗; 未做到; 未履行; 故障; 失靈; 衰退; 衰竭; 缺乏; 不足; 公司倒閉
例句：
1.Failure, like pain, is alien to my life.
失敗和我，就像水火壹樣，互 不相容。
2.Because it's not?failure?itself that constrains us.
因為不是失敗本身束縛了我們。
3.Your tenacity and your ability to define who you are, through those?failures?will be your ultimate success.
妳的堅韌不拔和妳的能力決定妳將成為什麽樣的人，通過這些失敗，最終將會使妳走向成功。
4.And then at the end of a whole bunch of?failures?is something that's great.
失敗乃成功之母。
5.I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my?failure
我知道我有駕馭語言的才能和直面令人不快的現實的能力。這壹切似乎造就了壹個私人的天地，在此天地中我能挽回我在日常生活中的不得意。