Dictionary entry
Without fail
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
[IDM ] မပျက်မကွက်။ အမြဲတမ်း။ အစဉ်သဖြင့်။
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
- Most people who try to lose weight fail dismally.
- [fail to do something] : They have failed to come up with any practical solutions.
- [fail in] : He failed in his attempt to get compensation.
- Attempts to revive him failed.
- It looks as if the negotiations are going to fail.
- He failed to come home at the usual time.
- [fail in your duty/obligation] : The government is failing in its duty to protect people.
- He felt he had failed his team-mates.
- The political system has failed us.
- The new plane failed a safety test.
- She failed all her exams.
- [fail on] : I failed on the written part of my driving test.
- Examiners failed nearly 30% of the candidates.
- The brakes failed and the van crashed into a tree.
- If interest rates go up
- more small businesses will fail.
- At the last minute
- her courage failed her.