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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the Nautilus men's hearts never fail them.
-- As we walked I thought the light of our Ruhmkorff apparatus could not fail to draw some inhabitant from its dark couch.
-- But the sharks did not fail to help them at their funeral work.
-- However, money would not fail them, provided that their galleons, laden with gold and silver from America, once entered their ports.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Don't you find, that things fail to materialize?
-- "But do you fail to live?"
-- In the same way the mystery could dispense with man, should he too fail creatively to change and develop.
扩展阅读：