"Most willingly. She is nice--isn't she? her indeed, if you should meet, love her, marry her. She is worth more than all the rest of womankind together. And yet, failing her--failing her----"英文原著 · 《The Nabob》
"Fail? What a murrain do you here, to talk of failing? Who made you a prophet, you scurvy, hang-in-the-wind, croaking, white- livered son of a corby-crow?"
"Heaven help us, Admiral Hawkins, who has put fire to your culverins in this fashion?" said Lord Howard. my lord! Croakers! my lord! Here's a fellow calls himself the captain of a ship, and her majesty's servant, and talks about failing, as if he were a Barbican loose-kirtle trying to keep her apple-squire ashore! Blurt for him, sneak-up!英文原著 · 《Westward Ho》
Seized after a desperate resistance, he was wounded wellnigh to death, and Briscoe quoted a dozen precedents to prove that he was unfit to be tried or hanged. Argument failing, the munificent Clerk offered fifty pounds for the life of his friend. But to no purpose: the valiant wrestler was carried to the cart in a chair, and so lifted to the gallows, which cured him of his gaping wounds.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
For me, alas! I am full resolved Those bands, alas! shall not be dissolved; Nor break my word, though reward come late; Nor fail my faith in my failing fate; Nor change in change, though change change my state:英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
The earth her ears; the stake is my request; Of which, how much may pierce to that sweet seat, To honour turned, doth dwell in honour's nest, Keeping that form, though void of wonted heat; But all the rest, which fear durst not apply, Failing themselves, with withered conscience die.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
This wintry morning her ninth lay slumbering by her side; the noise of baying dogs and boisterous men had died away with the last sound of the horses' hoofs; the little light which came into the room through the ivied window was a faint yellowish red; she was cold, because the fire in the chimney was but a scant, failing one; she was alone--and she knew that the time had come for her death. This she knew full well.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
I say this with some trepidation, But a failing is a failing.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
I once knew this girl who was so used to not failing that the first time she did,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
You know, we're just two people trying and. often failing to figure out the best way to be.美剧 · 《Billions》
They know they spent years trying and failing to prove it, but the story is being written every day now.美剧 · 《Billions》