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default

noun
 
🔊/dɪˈfɔːlt/, 🔊/ˈdiːfɔːlt/
🔊/dɪˈfɔːlt/, 🔊/ˈdiːfɔːlt/
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  1.  
    [uncountable, countable, usually singular] what happens or appears if you do not make any other choice or change, especially in a computer program默认；系统设定值；缺省值；预置值
    • The default is fifty lines.默认值为五十行。
    • The default option is to save your work every five minutes.默认设置为每五分钟存盘一次。🔊🔊
    • What is your default browser?你的默认浏览器是什么？
    • All my life, envy has been my default emotion.一生以来，嫉妒一直是我的默认情感。
    Topics Preferences and decisionsc1, Computersc1
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    [uncountable, countable] failure to do something that must be done by law, especially paying a debt违约（尤指未偿付债务）
    • in default (on something) The company is in default on the loan.这家公司拖欠借款。🔊🔊
    • Mortgage defaults have risen in the last year.按揭借款违约在近一年里呈上升趋势。🔊🔊
    Topics Permission and obligationc1, Crime and punishmentc1
    3. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French defaut, from defaillir ‘to fail’, based on Latin fallere ‘disappoint, deceive’.
Idioms
by default
  1. a game or competition can be won by default if there are no other people, teams, etc. taking part（比赛）因其他参赛者不到场，由于对手缺席（而胜出）
    • He became world champion in 2007 by default.默认情况下，他于2007年成为世界冠军。
  2. if something happens by default, it happens because you have not made any other decision or choices that would make things happen in a different way由于没有特别作出决定（或选择）
    • I became a teacher by default rather than by design.我默认是成为老师，而不是故意成为老师。
    Topics Preferences and decisionsc2
in default of something
  1. (formal) because of a lack of something由于缺乏…；因为没有…
    • They accepted what he had said in default of any evidence to disprove it.由于缺乏相反的证据，他们相信了他的话。🔊🔊

default

verb
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they default
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he / she / it defaults
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past simple defaulted
🔊/dɪˈfɔːltɪd/
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past participle defaulted
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-ing form defaulting
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  1. [intransitive] default (on something) to fail to do something that you legally have to do, especially by not paying a debt违约，不履行义务（尤指不偿还债务）
    • to default on a loan/debt拖欠借款／债务
    • defaulting borrowers/tenants不偿还债务的借款人；拖欠租金的承租人
    Topics Crime and punishmentc2
  2. [intransitive] default (to something) to happen when you do not make any other choice or change默认；预设；预置
    • The progam defaults to the standard style each time you open it.每次打开时，程序都会默认为标准样式。
    Topics Preferences and decisionsc2
    3. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French defaut, from defaillir ‘to fail’, based on Latin fallere ‘disappoint, deceive’.