Kodak's decision to file for bankruptcy（破產）protection is a sad, though not unexpected, turning point for a leading American corporation that pioneered consumer photography and dominated the film market for decades, but ultimately failed to adapt to the digital revolution.
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It wasn't that Kodak was blind to the future, said Rebecca Henderson, a professor at Harvard Business School, but rather that it failed to execute on a strategy to confront it
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Kodak is an example of a firm that was very much aware that they had to adapt, and spent a lot of money trying to do so, but ultimately failed.
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VERB
失敗;未能夠;未做成
If you fail to do something that you were trying to do, you are unable to do it or do not succeed in doing it.
例句
The Workers' Party failed to win a single governorship...
勞工黨連一個州長職位也未能贏得。
He failed in his attempt to take control of the company...
他試圖掌控公司，但以失敗告終。
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VERB
(活動、嘗試、計劃等)失敗，不成功
If an activity, attempt, or plan fails, it is not successful.
例句
We tried to develop plans for them to get along, which all failed miserably...
我們試圖計劃讓他們好好相處，但均以慘敗告終。
He was afraid the revolution they had started would fail...
他擔心他們發起的大變革會遭遇失敗。
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VERB
沒有做，未做(應做的事)
If someone or something fails to do a particular thing that they should have done, they do not do it.
例句
Some schools fail to set any homework...
有些學校沒有布置任何作業。
He failed to file tax returns for 1982...
他沒有呈報 1982 年的納稅申報單。
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VERB
出故障;失靈
If something fails, it stops working properly, or does not do what it is supposed to do.
例句
The lights mysteriously failed, and we stumbled around in complete darkness...
燈不知怎么地不亮了，我們在一片黑暗中跌跌撞撞地走著。
In fact many food crops failed because of the drought.
實際上，因為干旱，很多糧食作物歉收。
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VERB
(企業)倒閉，破產;(機構)解體;(體系)崩潰
If a business, organization, or system fails, it becomes unable to continue in operation or in existence.
例句
So far this year, 104 banks have failed.
今年到目前為止，已有 104 家銀行倒閉。
...a failed hotel business...
破產的酒店
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VERB
(健康狀況、體質等)衰弱，虛弱，衰退
If something such as your health or a physical quality is failing, it is becoming gradually weaker or less effective.
例句
He was 58, and his health was failing rapidly...
他 58 歲，身體正在迅速衰老。
Here in the hills, the light failed more quickly...
在山區這兒，天黑得更快。
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VERB
辜負;使失望
If someone fails you, they do not do what you had expected or trusted them to do.
例句
We waited twenty-one years, don't fail us now.
我們等了 21 年了，如今不要讓我們失望。
...communities who feel that the political system has failed them.
對此套政治體制感到失望的群體
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VERB
不履行，未盡(職責)
If someone fails in their duty or fails in their responsibilities, they do not do everything that they have a duty or a responsibility to do.
例句
Lawyers are accused of failing in their duties to advise clients of their rights...
律師們被控未盡到告知當事人其正當權利的職責。
If we did not report what was happening in the country, we would be failing in our duty.
如果我們沒有報道這個國家正在發生的事情，我們就沒有盡到自己的責任。
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VERB
(品質或能力)有負于;(使)不如愿;不夠
If a quality or ability that you have fails you, or if it fails, it is not good enough in a particular situation to enable you to do what you want to do.
例句
For once, the artist's fertile imagination failed him...
這位畫家豐富的想象力曾一度枯竭。
Their courage failed a few steps short and they came running back.
還差幾步他們卻膽怯了，又跑回來了。
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VERB
不及格
If someone fails a test, examination, or course, they perform badly in it and do not reach the standard that is required.
例句
I lived in fear of failing my end-of-term exams.
我總是擔心期末考試不及格。
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VERB
評定…不及格;使不及格
If someone fails you in a test, examination, or course, they judge that you have not reached a high enough standard in it.
例句
...the two men who had failed him during his first year of law school.
在法學院一年級時讓他不及格的兩個人
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PHRASE
如果其他一切都不奏效的話;假如其他都行不通
You say if all else fails to suggest what could be done in a certain situation if all the other things you have tried are unsuccessful.
例句
If all else fails, I could always drive a truck.
如果其他都不行，我總還可以開卡車。
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PHRASE
(用以表示不贊成)不明白，看不出
You can use I fail to see or I fail to understand in order to introduce a statement which indicates that you do not agree with what someone has said or done.
例句
That's how it was in my day and I fail to see why it should be different now.
我那時候就是這樣的，我搞不懂為什么現在非要弄得不一樣。
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PHRASE
總是;一直
You use without fail to emphasize that something always happens.
例句
He attended every meeting without fail.
他逢會必到。
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PHRASE
(用以強調命令或承諾)一定，必須
You use without fail to emphasize an order or a promise.
例句
On the 30th you must without fail hand in some money for Alex...
30 日那天你必須替亞歷克斯交一些錢。
Tomorrow without fail he would be at the old riverside warehouse.
明天他一定會在河邊的舊倉庫里。