failed to

基本解釋

The President promised a $50 rebate for each taxpayer but failed to deliver it.
總統(tǒng)曾答應(yīng)讓每個(gè)納稅人減稅50美元，但未能兌現(xiàn)。
I don't think you have changed at all! Xiao Li shouldn't have failed to recognize you.
我覺得你一點(diǎn)兒也沒變，小李不應(yīng)該不認(rèn)識(shí)你呀!
《新英漢大辭典》
If you had just changed your appearance in some way, have other friends failed to recognize you since?
如果你剛剛在某種程度上改變你的外表，還有沒有其他的朋友也沒能認(rèn)出來你？

Cazeau had never spoken angrily to her or called her names or failed to give her everything she wanted.
Now never mind that our own experience with virgins has failed to afford us such a spectacle of bodily transformation.
沒有關(guān)系，如果我們關(guān)于貞操的知識(shí),之前未能告訴我們?nèi)绱藟延^的身體轉(zhuǎn)換。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
Every now and then you read in the newspaper about somebody whose parachute failed to open and so they died.
不時(shí)地你會(huì)在報(bào)紙上看到,某人的降落傘沒打開導(dǎo)致他們死了。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選

The suits allege that each failed to offer employee benefits after treating them like full-time workers.
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