英文词源
- failure (n.)
- 1640s, failer, "a failing, deficiency," also "act of failing," from Anglo-French failer, Old French falir "be lacking; not succeed" (see fail (v.)). The verb in Anglo-French used as a noun; ending altered 17c. in English to conform with words in -ure. Meaning "thing or person considered as a failure" is from 1837.
中文词源
来自fail, 失败。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：failure 词源，failure 含义。
failure：失败，不及格；失败者；故障，失灵
来源于拉丁语动词fallere。
同源词：fail, fallacy, fallible, false, fault
