failed

adjective
🔊/feɪld/
🔊/feɪld/
[only before noun]
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  1. not successful失败的;不成功的
    • a failed writer不成功的作家
    • a failed coup流产政变
    Extra Examples
    • He still considered himself something of a failed journalist.他仍然认为自己是个不怎么成功的记者。
    • I paid off the debts left by our failed business.我还清了我们生意失败所欠下的债务。
    • She already had two failed marriages behind her.她已经有过两次失败的婚姻。
    • She ran into financial difficulties after a number of failed ventures.在许多失败的创业之后,她陷入财务困境。
    • The rebel leader fled the country after the failed uprising.叛乱分子的头目在暴动失败后逃离了那个国家。
    Topics Difficulty and failureb2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryFailed is used with these nouns:
    • attempt
    • bid
    • coup
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