fault
n. 責任; 錯誤; 缺點; (地殼)斷層; 發球失誤
v. 發現錯誤
If a bad or undesirable situation is your fault, you caused it or are responsible for it.
There was no escaping the fact: it was all his fault...
這全是他的錯,這是無法迴避的事實。
A few borrowers will find themselves in trouble with their repayments through no fault of their own.
一些借款人會發現,他們還款遇到了麻煩,但根本不是由於自身的過失造成的。
A fault is a mistake in what someone is doing or in what they have done.
It is a big fault to think that you can learn how to manage people in business school.
以為在商學院能學會如何管理人是一大錯誤。
A fault in someone or something is a weakness in them or something that is not perfect.
His manners had always made her blind to his faults.
他的彬彬有禮總是使她對他的缺點視而不見。
...a short delay due to a minor technical fault...
一個技術上的小故障引起的短暫延誤
If you cannot fault someone, you cannot find any reason for criticizing them or the things that they are doing.
You can't fault them for lack of invention...
你不能因為他們缺乏創新就指責他們。
It is hard to fault the way he runs his own operation.
他經營自己公司的方式無可指摘。
A fault is a large crack in the surface of the earth.
...the San Andreas Fault.
聖安德烈亞斯斷層
A fault in tennis is a service that is wrong according to the rules.
If someone or something is at fault, they are to blame or are responsible for a particular situation that has gone wrong.
He could never accept that he had been at fault...
他怎麼也無法承認是他的錯。
There are no indications that standard security arrangements were at fault.
沒有跡象表明例行的保安措施存在問題。
If you find fault with something or someone, you look for mistakes and complain about them.
I was disappointed whenever the cook found fault with my work.
每當廚師挑剔我乾的活兒時,我都非常沮喪。
If you say that someone has a particular good quality to a fault, you are emphasizing that they have more of this quality than is usual or necessary.
Jefferson was generous to a fault...
傑斐遜大方得過了頭。
Others will tell you that she is modest to a fault, funny, clever and warm.
別人會告訴你她有趣、聰明又熱情,謙遜得過了頭。
1. responsibility for a bad situation or event;
2. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;
3. the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection;
4. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention;
5. an imperfection in a device or machine;
6. (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area);
7. (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.);
1. put or pin the blame on
error, fault, blunder, flaw, mistake, shortcoming, defect, slip
這些名詞均有"錯誤"或"缺點"之意。
—— to a fault
(過分表現出某好品質的人)過分,過度
at fault
該受責備的;有罪的
混亂的,迷惑的
find fault
挑錯,找錯:尋找、發現和抱怨錯處;批評
to a fault
過度地
That was my fault.
那是我的過錯.
I support him against those who are finding fault with him.
我支援他反對那些專挑他毛病的人.
Some people are often reproached for unpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine.
有的人因不準時而受到指責,這時他們唯一的過失就是把時間摳得太緊了.
It was doubtless his own fault.
這無疑是他自己的錯.
Soon she began to find fault with me.
不久她便開始找我的岔子了.