failure与success的用法辨析
failure(失败) 和 success(成功)是一对反义词,但用法上有不少相似之处和需注意之处:
1.泛指一般意义的“失败”或“成功”,通常是不可数名词;
指具体的失败自行车构造(成功)cancelling的人或事等,或指一次失败或成功等,通常是可数名词。
如:
Failure is the mother of success.
失败是成功之母。
If you fail, make failure a stepping stone to success.
假若你失败,就把它当作通向成功的垫脚石。
娇生惯养Success came after many failures.
多次失败之后,终于获得了成功。
He is a failure (success) in business.
他在生意上很失败悲壮的意思(晴天打雷成功)。
It was said that the party was a failure (success).
据说晚会开得不成功(很成功)。
2.表示未能做某事,通常用怎么快速学英语 one’s failure to do sth;
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表示成功地做了某事,通常用 have success in doing sth祸福相生。
如:
His failure to help us was disappointing.
他未能帮助我们真是令人失望。
Did you have any success in persuading her to come?
你说服了她来吗?
表示在某一方面的失败或考试不及格等,可用介词 in。
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a failure in duty(失职),failure in love(失恋),one’s failure in an exam(考试不及格)