fail是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 失败， 不及格； 衰退， 减弱，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I am right in my conjecture, that the bottle has been carried into the sea on the bosom of some river, we cannot fail to find the track of the prisoners.
-- The sudden transition from a desert to an oasis, from snowy peaks to verdant plains, from Winter to Summer, can not fail to strike the traveler's eye.
-- If they fail to find a workman, the wagon could not resume the journey.
-- You see, unless I make mistakes, it seems to me I fail in my vocation."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I fail to see how you could have done more.'
-- Some-times it seemed impossible that he should fail to hear our approach.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't see how she can fail to to understand ' 'Her own position?'
-- I warn you of this beforehand, but you cannot fail to observe it.
-- She awaited the answer as though convinced that it would be so foolish that she must inevitably fail to restrain her laughter over it.
-- 'I will not fail to deliver your message,' she replied, and bowed them out.
-- As they cannot fail to recognize Burdovsky's right (seeing that it is mathematically demonstrable), it is just as well that the witnesses should be your friends.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never recall my word, or deceive, or fail to do what I say, when I have nodded my head.'
-- Thus you shall also learn whether it is through the counsel of heaven or the cowardice of man that you shall fail to take the town.'
-- I am at sea, and without sure counsel; my heart beats as though it would leap out of my body, and my limbs fail me.
-- Diomed an-swered, 'If you bid me take the man of my own choice, how in that case can I fail to think of Ulysses, than whom there is no man more eager to face all kinds of danger and Pal-las Minerva loves him well?
-- I will make you a good scout, and will not fail you.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But if you betray me," he said, "if you fail to do as I direct you " He paused and tapped Mr. Marvel's shoulder smartly.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then, Friday,' says I, 'do exactly as you see me do; fail in nothing.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed really anxious to accommodate them and the whole of his letter was written in so friendly a style as could not fail of giving pleasure to his cousin; more especially at a moment when she was suffering under the cold and unfeeling behaviour of her nearer connections.
-- They had begun to fail him before he entered the house, and they were quite overcome by the captivating manners of Mrs. Dashwood.
-- He LOOKED all the astonishment which such unexpected, such unthought-of information could not fail of exciting; but he said only these two words,"Colonel Brandon!"
-- Elinor would not attempt to disturb a solitude so reasonable as what she now sought; and with a mind anxiously pre-arranging its result, and a resolution of reviving the subject again, should Marianne fail to do it, she turned into the parlour to fulfill her parting injunction.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They said there wasn't any need for alarm, but that I shouldn't fail to bring you."
-- He could not fail to notice the signs of affluence and luxury on every hand.
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