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failure(失败) 和 success(成功)是一对反义词,但用法上有不少相似之处和需注意之处:

1. 泛指一般意义的失败或成功,通常是不可数名词;指具体的失败(成功)的人或事等,或指一次失败或成功等,通常是可数名词。如:

Failure is the mother of success. 失败是成功之母。

If you fail, make failure a stepping stone to success. 假若你失败,就把它当作通向成功的垫脚石。

Success came after many failures. 多次失败之后,终于获得了成功。

He is a failure (success) in business. 他在生意上很失败(成功)。

It was said that the party was a failure (success). 据说晚会开得不成功(很成功)。

2. 表示未能做某事,通常用 one’s failure to do sth;表示成功地做了某事,通常用 have success in doing sth。如:

His failure to help us was disappointing. 他未能帮助我们真是令人失望。

Did you have any success in persuading her to come? 你说服了她来吗?

表示在某一方面的失败或考试不及格等,可用介词 in。如:a failure in duty(失职),failure in love(失恋),one’s failure in an exam(考试不及格)

核心词汇failure与success的异同分析