fail
feilverb
A11,331st most heard wordIn 95 of 2278 videos (4%)heard 165 timeslast on Oct 17, 2026
- v. fail to do something; leave something undone
- v. be unsuccessful
- v. disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
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- 1:11That failed, so we put the kittens behind the trap.那失败了，所以我们把小猫放在捕猫器后面。Stray Mama Cat Chooses Public Bathroom To Raise Her Newborn Kittens | The Dodo
- 3:49She admitted on a podcast that while she did graduate law school here in California, she failed the bar exam.她在一个播客上承认，虽然她确实从加州的法学院毕业了，但没通过律师资格考试。The White House is Mad at Jimmy Kimmel AGAIN, Trump’s Press Secretary Mess & Fox News Betrays Him
- 18:03I knew that I had to go to face the families and say the task that we were doing failed.我知道我必须去面对那些家庭，告诉他们我们所做的工作失败了。Inside the Chilean Mine Rescue (Full Episode) | Witness to Disaster | National Geographic
- 6:31I also like the visual of if you fail and the bouncer says you can't get in, no one inside knows you couldn't get in anymore.我也很喜欢这个画面：如果你失败了，保镖说你不能进去，里面的人根本不知道你被拒之门外了。11 Marketing Rules Every YouTuber Needs to Know
- 7:41Number one, if I knew I couldn't fail, what would I like to do?第一，如果我知道自己不会失败，我想做什么？Brutally Honest Advice About Productivity in 26 Minutes
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- failedfailingfails
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