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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Of course,' said the troop horse, 'everyone is not made in the same way, and I can quite see that your family, on your father's side, would fail to understand a great many things.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such an innovation on the silence and retirement of the forest could not fail to enlist the ears of those who journeyed at so short a distance in advance.
-- 'Do I expect a hungry wolf will satisfy his craving with a mouthful!They have lost a man, and 'tis their fashion, when they meet a loss, and fail in the surprise, to fall back; but we shall have them on again, with new expedients to circumvent us, and master our scalps.
-- 'I tell you, Uncas,' said the former, as Heyward joined them, 'you are wasteful of your powder, and the kick of the rifle disconcerts your aim!Little powder, light lead, and a long arm, seldom fail of bringing the death screech from a Mingo!At least, such has been my experience with the crea-tur's.
-- If my marks do not fail me, we shall find the place a few rods further to our left.'
-- 'The walls are crumbling about our ears, and provisions begin to fail us,' continued Heyward, without regarding the new burst of indignation; 'even the men show signs of dis-content and alarm.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I smiled, for his appearance, so rotund and yet so startled, could never fail to excite a smile, and then as I came nearer I noticed that he seemed singularly disconsolate.
-- I want her to know that I shall never fail her."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took great care not to touch these nests, to which their proprietors would not fail to return.
-- Clever, intelligent, indefatigable, robust, with iron health, he knew a little about the work of the forge, and could not fail to be very useful in the colony.
-- However, Top kept at the head of the little band, and they could rely on the sagacity of the dog, who would not fail to give the alarm if there was any need for it.
-- Cyrus Harding did not hesitate to give utterance to the suggestions which this fact, at once surprising and unexpected, could not fail to raise in his mind.
-- In fact, the heart of friend Pencroft could not fail to be rejoiced, for the flesh o f the turtle, which feeds on wrack-grass, is extremely savory.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Quilp was as innocent as her own mother of any emotion, painful or pleasant, which the sight of him awakened, but as her husband's glance made her timid and confused, and uncertain what to do or what was required of her, Mr Quilp did not fail to assign her embarrassment to the cause he had in his mind, and while he chuckled at his penetration was secretly exasperated by his jealousy.
-- When they were wandering about, she seldom thought of this, but now she could not help considering what would become of them if he fell sick, or her own strength were to fail her.
-- He also gave them to understand that the cooking apparatus roasted a fine piece of sirloin of beef, weighing about six pounds avoir-dupoise, in two minutes and a quarter, as he had himself witnessed, and proved by his sense of taste; and further, that, however the effect was produced, he had distinctly seen water boil and bubble up when the single gentleman winked; from which facts he (Mr Swiveller) was led to infer that the lodger was some great conjuror or chemist, or both, whose residence under that roof could not fail at some future days to shed a great credit and distinction on the name of Brass, and add a new interest to the history of Bevis Marks.
-- Sampson Brass was no sooner left alone, than he set the office-door wide open, and establishing himself at his desk directly opposite, so that he could not fail to see anybody who came down-stairs and passed out at the street door, began to write with extreme cheerfulness and assiduity; humming as he did so, in a voice that was anything but musical, certain vocal snatches which appeared to have reference to the union between Church and State, inasmuch as they were compounded of the Evening Hymn and God save the King.
-- The world, being in the constant commission of vast quantities of injustice, is a little too apt to comfort itself with the idea that if the victim of its falsehood and malice have a clear conscience, he cannot fail to be sustained under his trials, and somehow or other to come right at last; 'in which case,' say they who have hunted him down, ' though we certainly don't expect it nobody will be better pleased than we.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was surprised that the jury, in limiting the charge by the words, "without intent to rob," should fail to add also "without intent to cause death."
-- "Still I fail to see what all this has to do with visiting her."
-- "Excuse me, but I fail to see what this has to do with my request," fuming, Nekhludoff answered with rancor.
-- "Don't fail to tell him about us," said the old Menshova, while Maslova was arranging her headgear before a looking-glass half void of mercury.
-- Nekhludoff knew all that before, but he was now learning it as something new, and only wondered why he and all those who stood in a similar position could fail to see the enormity of such relations.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a grand defiance given to the giant narwhal, and he could scarcely fail to answer the summons and "appear."
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