Fail-safe

Definition

fail / feÇl / v ၁။ (က) ~ ( in sth/to do sth ) မေအာင္မျမင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ အေရးနိမ့္သည္။ ပ်က္ကြက္သည္။ က်႐ံႈးသည္။ I seem to fail in everything I do. ❍ The letter failed to arrive in time. ❍ He failed his driving test. (ခ) စာစစ္သူက အက်ေပးသည္။ စာေမးပြဲခ်သည္။ The examiners failed over half the candidates. ၂။ ပ်က္ကြက္သည္။ He never fails to write (ie always writes) to his mother every week. ❍ She failed to keep (ie did not keep) her appointment. ၃။ ပ်က္သည္။ မေအာင္ျမင္။ The power failed as soon as I switched on the machine. ❍ The crops have failed again. ၄။ (က) တာဝန္မေက်ျဖစ္သည္။ ပ်က္ကြက္သည္။ He felt he had failed his family by being unemployed. ❍ She promised that she wouldn't fail him. (ခ) (သတၱိ) ေၾကာင္သြားသည္။ (စကားလံုး) ရွာမရ ျဖစ္သည္။ (ႏႈတ္) အ သြားသည္။ My courage failed me at the last minute. ❍ Words fail me (ie I cannot express how I feel). ၅။ (က) (က်န္းမာေရး စသည္) ယိုယြင္းသည္။ အားနည္းသည္။ Her eyesight is failing. ❍ His last months in office were marked by failing health. (ခ) (စက္) ပ်က္သည္၊ ေဖာက္သည္၊ ေၾကာင္သည္။ The brakes failed on the hill, but I managed to stop the car. ၆။ လုပ္ငန္းစသည္ ပ်က္သည္၊ ရပ္သည္။ Several banks failed during the recession. n (စာေမးပြဲတြင္) အက်။ I got three passes and one fail. ❏ fail-safe adj တစ္ခုခု ခြၽတ္ယြင္းသြားသည့္တိုင္ ေဘးကင္းေအာင္ စီမံထားေသာ (စက္ကိရိယာ စသည္)။ a fail- safe device/mechanism/system. ❏ without fail [ IDM ] မပ်က္မကြက္။ အၿမဲတမ္း။ အစဥ္သျဖင့္။ I'll be there at two o'clock without fail. ❍ He is late for every meeting without fail.

Examples

1. Most people who try to lose weight fail dismally.
2. [fail to do something] : They have failed to come up with any practical solutions.
3. [fail in] : He failed in his attempt to get compensation.
4. Attempts to revive him failed.
5. It looks as if the negotiations are going to fail.
6. He failed to come home at the usual time.
7. [fail in your duty/obligation] : The government is failing in its duty to protect people.
8. He felt he had failed his team-mates.
9. The political system has failed us.
10. The new plane failed a safety test.
11. She failed all her exams.
12. [fail on] : I failed on the written part of my driving test.
13. Examiners failed nearly 30% of the candidates.
14. The brakes failed and the van crashed into a tree.
15. If interest rates go up
16. more small businesses will fail.
17. At the last minute
18. her courage failed her.