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

• 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。
• I have some failings of my own to confess.
  我也要向你坦白我的过失。
• 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。
• He had his failings, but he was basically a good man.
  他有缺点，但本质上是一个好人。
• Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings.
  你想说他什么就尽情地说吧，但我了解孩子的缺点。
• We all too easily point out our mothers 'failings.
  我们都太过轻易地指出母亲的缺点。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。