Fault

(noun.) (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); 'he served too many double faults'.

(noun.) responsibility for a bad situation or event; 'it was John's fault'.

(noun.) (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.); 'it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it'.

(noun.) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; 'they built it right over a geological fault'; 'he studied the faulting of the earth's crust'.

富兰克林校对

• It is I who have been in fault: I ought to have seen that I could not afford to live in this way. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• And if I don't make his mother subject to me, too, it shall not be my fault. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• For this seems to me nothing but the resuscitation of the devil: when things go wrong it is somebody else's fault. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• She spoke not a word, but stole to bed after her father had left her, like a child ashamed of its fault. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Wine and wassail, he added, gravely casting up his eyes--all the fault of wine and wassail! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• If niggers is quiet, and don't try to get off, they has good times with me; and if they don't, why, it's thar fault, and not mine. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It's not her fault if everybody don't know it now, growled Trenor, flushed with the struggle of getting into his fur-lined coat. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• As in everything else, it has taken time to overcome the faults of the early trucks. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I must reproach her with her faults, and then--she will throw the plates and dishes in my face! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I am acquainted with my faults. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Yes, I am guilty of those faults, and punished for them every day. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In other words, the very faults that we noted in the negative, from a picture point of view, automatically right themselves. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Had this charming creature no faults? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• My faults, according to this calculation, are heavy indeed! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.

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