详细释义
- 责任
- 误差，错误，咎，过错，过失，罪过
- （网球等）发球失误
- 缺点，毛病，缺陷，瑕疵
- （猎犬追捕猎物时）失去嗅迹
- 【电】故障，漏电
- 【地】断层
- 对…挑毛病，找…的缺点，找...的岔子，挑剔
- 弄错，做错
- 责难，责备，批评，非难，指责
- 【地】产生断层，有断层余迹，在…产生断层，断裂
- 发球出界，发球失误，犯规
- 出差错，犯错误
- 发现错误，找出缺点
- [C]缺点,缺陷,故障 imperfection or flaw
- [U]过失,过错 (responsibility for a) mistake or offence
英英释义
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a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention;
"he made a bad mistake"
"she was quick to point out my errors"
"I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
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an imperfection in an object or machine;
"a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"
"if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"
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the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection;
"they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"
"he knew his own faults much better than she did"
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(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;
"they built it right over a geological fault"
"he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"
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(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.);
"it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it"
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responsibility for a bad situation or event;
"it was John's fault"
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(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area);
"he served too many double faults"
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put or pin the blame on
双语例句
- 1. The aircraft made an unscheduled landing after developing an electrical fault.
- 飞机由于发生电力故障而作了临时降落。
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- 2. He could never accept that he had been at fault.
- 他怎么也无法承认是他的错。
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- 3. I was disappointed whenever the cook found fault with my work.
- 每当厨师挑剔我干的活儿时，我都非常沮丧。
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- 4. It is hard to fault the way he runs his own operation.
- 他经营自己公司的方式无可指摘。
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- 5. The data that's being used to fault American education is highly politicized.
- 用来指责美国教育的数据被高度政治化了。
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- I like him despite his faults.
虽然他有很多缺点，我仍然喜欢他。 - He has many faults, but vanity is not one of them.
他有很多缺点，但并没有虚荣心。 - There is a fault in the electrical system.
电路系统出了故障。 - It was not our fault that we were late.
这次迟到不是我们的错。 - It's partly your fault.
一方面也是由于你的过错。 - They built it right over a geological fault.
它正好建在一个地质断层上。 - The Balcones Fault is the geological dividing line.
鲍尔肯断层是地理分界线。 - No one could fault his performance.
他的演出无懈可击.
- The roof collapsed because of a fault in the beams.
房顶塌了,因为横梁有毛病。 - With all his faults, he was still a good teacher.
尽管有缺点,他仍不失为一名好老师。 - Many schools have heeded the warnings and are working to correct their faults.
许多学校已重视这些告诫,并正在着手改正他们的缺点。 - For all her faults,Tallulah's friends tolerated and even adored her.
尽管塔卢拉有缺点,她的朋友们却宽容她,甚至崇拜她。 - He was in fault several times during his speech.
他在发言中出了几次错。 - Sloppiness is his greatest fault.
草率是他最大的缺点。 - His only fault is that he lacks experience.
他唯一的缺点是缺少经验。 - I can't find any fault in it.
我找不出它有任何缺点。 - Of her many faults, vanity is the greatest.
虚荣是她许多缺点中最大的。 - If these faults could be attended to, public transport in London could be very good.
如果这些问题得到注意,那么伦敦的公共交通将会大为改观。 - Send it back to the manufacturer if the machine develops the same fault.
如果这台机器发生同样的故障,就把它退回到生产厂家。 - I shall not bear with his fault.
我不会宽容他的错误。 - Yet the fault lies on him but in the system.
但是错误的责任不在他,而在那种制度。 - Whose fault is it that we are late?
我们迟到是谁的过错? - The boss is an easy going person and apt to look over other's faults.
老板很好相处,总是原谅别人的过错。 - I told him whose fault it was.
我告诉了他这是谁的过错。 - It's your fault that she hasn't come to the party.
她没来参加聚会是你的过错。 - Every man has some faults.
人孰无过。 - Faults are thick where love is thin.
一朝情义淡,样样不顺眼。 - The fault is on both sides.
双方都有责任。 - The fault lies with him, not with you.
责任在他,而不在你。
用法讲解
- fault表示具体的“缺点,错误,缺陷,故障”时,可用作可数名词; 泛指抽象的“过失,过错”“责任”时,是不可数名词。
- 短语to a fault指好得过分以至于要变坏了,它常与正面意思的形容词或副词连用。
- find fault with中的fault是不可数名词,表示“挑剔”,也可说find much fault with; find a fault〔faults〕 in中的fault是可数名词,表示“看出…的缺点”,也可说find many faults in。
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短语at fault表示“不知所措的”，be at fault表示“出毛病”，in fault表示“有过失的”，to a fault表示“过分的”，注意不可与指“不好”的词连用，如careless。
She is cautious to a fault.
她过分谨慎了。 -
find fault with表示“责备，挑剔”，属于固定搭配。
He found fault with my composition.
他挑剔我的作文不好。 -
fault后可加that从句。
It was my fault that I had written the wrong address.
写错了信的地址，那是我的错。 -
介词再加no fault of sb可表示为“不是某人的错”。
The cup broke through no fault of the girl.
打碎杯子并不是这个女孩的错。
- fault, defect
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- 这两个词都有“缺点,缺陷”的意思。其区别是：
- defect强调不影响全局,完美不足,而fault强调不十分严重,无伤大雅; 用于人时, defect多指人体器官上的缺陷,而fault多指道德行为的缺点; 用于物时, defect指易于察觉的缺陷, fault则指功能方面的缺陷。例如:
- He has some defects in his eyesight.他的视力有缺陷。
- I bought the cloth cheap because there is a small defect in it.这布我买得便宜,因为上面有个小疵点。
- Snobbishness was his main fault.他的主要缺点是势利眼。
- I don't mean to praise myself.I have my fault.我并不是要表扬自己,我也有我的过错。
- His only fault is that he lacks ambition.他唯一缺点就是没有雄心壮志。
- This accident is due to a fault in the electrical circuit.这次事故是由电路故障引起的。
- There is a fault in the machine.这机器有毛病。
- fault, error, flaw, mistake
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- 这四个词都有“缺点,错误”的意思。其区别是：
- 1.fault, flaw主要指“毛病,缺点”; mistake, error主要指“错误”。
- 2.fault多指性格、心智状态、情绪、行为或习惯中的“缺点”。例如:
- The dean demands perfection in others, but cannot see faults in himself.系主任要求别人完美无缺,却看不到自己的缺点。
- 3.error可指任何错误,也可指笔误,印刷上或计算上的错误。例如:
- Please pardon any error that you may discover in my letter.请原谅在我的信中你发现的一些错误。
- This book contains a lot of printer's errors.这本书有很多印刷错误。
- 4.mistake指判断或理解方面的错误,或是由于缺乏思考或疏忽而造成的错误。例如:
- I used your ink by mistake.我用错了你的墨水。
- He made some spelling mistakes in his test paper.在考试试卷中,他犯了拼写错误。
- at〔in〕 fault
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有错,有责任; 茫然,不知所措 responsible for a mistake; in the wrong
- find fault with
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挑毛病,挑剔 be overcritical of; discover a flaw in
- to a fault
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过分地,过度地 excessively
- admit one's fault 承认错误
- attack sb's faults 抨击某人的错误
- charge sb with a fault 指责某人犯了过错
- correct one's fault 改正缺点
- cover up a fault 掩饰错误
- discover a fault 发现毛病
- excuse a fault 原谅错误
- find fault 吹毛求疵
- lay one's fault on 把错误归咎于
- mend one's fault 改正缺点
- overlook a fault 宽容错误
- pass over sb's faults 没看出某人的错误
- punish a fault 惩罚错误
- thrust the fault on another 把错误推给别人
- common fault 一般的错误,共同的毛病
- glaring fault 大错,重大过失
- major fault 大错误,主要错误
- serious fault 严重错误
- a man of many faults 缺点多的人
