fault /fɔːlt/ CET4 TEM4 ( faulting, faulted, faults )

• 1. 

  N-SING If a bad or undesirable situation is your fault, you caused it or are responsible for it. 过错; 过失

  例：

  There was no escaping the fact: it was all his fault.

  无法逃避这一事实：这都是他的错。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT A fault is a mistake in what someone is doing or in what they have done. 错误

  例：

  It is a big fault to think that you can learn how to manage people in business school.

  认为你能在商学院学会如何管理人是一大错误。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT A fault in someone or something is a weakness in them or something that is not perfect. 缺点

  例：

  His manners had always made her blind to his faults.

  他的彬彬有礼总使她看不见他的缺点。

• 4. 

  N-COUNT A fault is a large crack in the surface of the earth. 断层

  例：

  ...the San Andreas Fault.

  …圣安德烈亚斯断层。

• 5. 

  N-COUNT A fault in tennis is a service that is wrong according to the rules. (网球的) 发球失误

  例：

  He caught the ball on his first toss and then served a fault.

  他击中了第一次抛起的球，随后发球失误。

• 6. 

  V-T If you cannot fault someone, you cannot find any reason for criticizing them or the things that they are doing. 批评 [with brd-neg]

  例：

  You can't fault them for lack of invention.

  你不能因为他们没有发明而加以批评他们。

• 7. 

  PHRASE If someone or something is at fault, they are to blame or are responsible for a particular situation that has gone wrong. 有过错

  例：

  He could never accept that he had been at fault.

  他永远也无法接受他犯了过错。

• 8. 

  PHRASE If you find fault with something or someone, you look for mistakes and complain about them. 挑剔; 指责

  例：

  I was disappointed whenever the cook found fault with my work.

  每当厨师挑我工作上的毛病时，我都很失望。