新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

fault

英  [fɔːlt]
    

[NOUN, VERB]

    NOUN. 名词
  • faults

    1[SING 单数型名词] 过错 , 过失

    If a bad or undesirable situation is your fault, you caused it or are responsible for it.

    双语例句

    例:

    There was no escaping the fact: it was all his fault.

    无法逃避这一事实:这都是他的错。

    2[C 可数名词] 错误

    A fault is a mistake in what someone is doing or in what they have done.

    近义词

    error , mistake

    双语例句

    例:

    It is a big fault to think that you can learn how to manage people in business school.

    认为你能在商学院学会如何管理人是一大错误。

    3[C 可数名词] 缺点

    A fault in someone or something is a weakness in them or something that is not perfect.

    近义词

    failing , flaw

    双语例句

    例:

    His manners had always made her blind to his faults.

    他的彬彬有礼总使她对他的缺点视而不见。

    4[C 可数名词] (地壳的)断层

    A fault is a large crack in the surface of the earth.

    双语例句

    例:

    the San Andreas Fault.

    圣安德烈亚斯断层。

    5[C 可数名词] (网球的)发球失误

    A fault in tennis is a service that is wrong according to the rules.

    双语例句

    例:

    He caught the ball on his first toss and then served a fault.

    他击中了第一次抛起的球,随后发球失误。

    PHRASE. 习语
  • at fault

    1有过错

    If someone or something is at fault, they are to blame or are responsible for a particular situation that has gone wrong.

    双语例句

    例:

    He could never accept that he had been at fault.

    他无法承认是他的错。

  • find fault with

    1挑剔 , 指责

    If you find fault with something or someone, you look for mistakes and complain about them.

    双语例句

    例:

    I was disappointed whenever the cook found fault with my work.

    每当厨师挑我工作上的毛病时,我都很沮丧。

    VERB. 动词
  • faults , faulting , faulted

    1[T 及物动词] 挑···毛病 , 挑剔

    If you cannot fault someone, you cannot find any reason for criticizing them or the things that they are doing.

    双语例句

    例:

    You can't fault them for lack of invention.

    在创新方面,你挑不出他们的毛病。

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