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fail : failure — 354 在构成介词短语时,前者要用 without 来引导,后者要用 with 来引导(参见词目 356 )。这是习惯用法使然,没有规则可循。 例如: Without fail the blood debt owned by that country to uswill be paid. 那个国家欠下我们的血债一定要偿还。(不说 Without failure …) The talk of “ d é tente ” has met with failure. 这次“缓和”谈判已遭到失败。(不说… with fail )
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