defeat
失败
常用释义
英音[ dɪˈfiːt ]
美音[ dɪˈfiːt ]
变形
复数:
defeats
第三人称单数:
defeats
现在分词:
defeating
过去式:
defeated
过去分词:
defeated
基本释义
- v. 击败，战胜；困惑，难住；使失败，阻挠；反对（动议或提议）
- n. 失败，战败；战胜，击败
考试频率
高考
考频：近六年出现2次
- vt. 击败；战胜 最常考
四级
考频：近五年出现1次
- vt. 战胜 击败 挫败 最常考
- n. 败北 失败
考点用法
【及物动词】意为“击败；战胜”，直接加名词或代词作宾语，或用被动语态
defeat sb/sth 击败/战胜...
We should spare no effort to defeat the pandemic.
我们应该不遗余力地战胜这一流行病。
2022年 · 辽宁 · 高二 · 阶段练习 · 阅读理解
be defeated 被击败
Our team was defeated last night, which made us sad and disappointed.
昨晚我们队被打败了，这让我们很伤心也很失望。
2022年 · 江西 · 高二 · 阶段练习 · 语法填空
【可数&不可数名词】意为“失败”
表抽象含义的失败时不可数
Six months after suffering our defeat, we won our first game and our second, and continued to improve.
在遭受失败的六个月后，我们赢得了第一场比赛和第二场比赛，并继续进步。
2022年 · 北京 · 高三 · 阶段练习 · 完形填空
表失败的经历时可数
Most of the defeats came in the course of two losing streaks.
大多数失败都发生在两连败的过程中。
2022年 · 金华 · 高三 · 模拟预测 · 阅读理解
例句
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1·They narrowly avoided defeat.他们险些儿被打败。来源: 《牛津词典》
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2·He bamboozled Mercer into defeat.他蒙骗默瑟并击败了他。来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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3·Defeat was staring them in the face.他们必遭失败。来源: 《牛津词典》
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4·They suffered a defeat at the polls.他们在投票选举中惨遭失败。来源: 《牛津词典》
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5·Don't let this defeat dishearten you.不要因这次失败而气馁。来源: 《牛津词典》
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6·They suffered the ignominy of defeat.他们蒙受了失败的耻辱。来源: 《牛津词典》
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7·They were staring defeat in the face.对他们来说，失败不可避免。来源: 《牛津词典》
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8·The party faces defeat in the election.这个党面临选举失败。来源: 《牛津词典》
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9·He seems unabashed by his recent defeat.他似乎不为近期的失败感到羞耻。来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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10·They accepted their defeat with resignation.他们无可奈何地承认失败。来源: 《牛津词典》
网络释义
- suffer defeat : 遭受失败
同根词
词根：
defeat
词语辨析
failure/defeat/fiasco/flop.导航词义：失败
failure:n. 失败；失败的人，失败的事.指做某事时未能达成目标，也可指不成功的人或事。
Their action ended in failure.
他们的行动以失败而告终。
She felt she was a failure in the others' eyes.
她觉得在别人眼中自己是个失败的人。
His election campaign was a complete failure.
他的竞选活动完全失败。
defeat:n. 失败.多指在与某一方的对抗中所遭遇的失败，如在战争、比赛、竞选等中的失利，也可泛指未能做成某事。
a narrow defeat
惜败
The commander admitted defeat in the battle.
指挥官承认此次战役失败了。
fiasco:n. 惨败.指让人十分难堪或失望的彻底失败。
His first audition was a fiasco.
他第一次试镜彻底失败。
He hoped that the supper his girlfriend made would not be a fiasco.
他希望女朋友做的晚饭不会完全无法下咽。
flop:n. 失败之作.指不受欢迎的产品、电影、戏剧等。
The flop of the novel discouraged the writer.
小说的失败让作者非常沮丧。
The monotonous dialogue made the film a complete flop.
单调的对白使这部电影一败涂地。