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"utter failure" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
彻底失败 徹底失敗 chè dǐ shī bài utter failure
Chinese Pinyin Translation
失败 失敗 shī bài to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL:次[ci4] syn
放屁 fàng pì to fart / to break wind / to talk nonsense / Utter rubbish! syn
故障 gù zhàng malfunction / breakdown / defect / shortcoming / fault / failure / impediment / error / bug (in software)
停电 停電 tíng diàn to have a power failure / power cut
衰竭 shuāi jié organ failure / exhaustion / prostration (medicine) syn
残局 殘局 cán jú endgame (in chess) / desperate situation / aftermath (of a failure)
挫败 挫敗 cuò bài to thwart / to foil (sb's plans) / a setback / a failure / a defeat syn
一事无成 一事無成 yī shì wú chéng to have achieved nothing / to be a total failure / to get nowhere syn
死心 sǐ xīn to give up / to admit failure / to drop the matter / to reconcile oneself to loss / to have no more illusions about
成败 成敗 chéng bài success or failure syn
重蹈覆辙 重蹈覆轍 chóng dǎo fù zhé lit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom) / fig. to follow a path that led to failure in the past / to repeat a disastrous mistake syn
断电 斷電 duàn diàn to experience a power outage / to have a power failure
饥荒 饑荒 jī huāng crop failure / famine / debt / difficulty syn
渎职 瀆職 dú zhí wrongdoing / failure to do one's duty syn
尽忠 盡忠 jìn zhōng to display utter loyalty / to be loyal to the end syn
得失 dé shī gains and losses / success and failure / merits and demerits syn
覆辙 覆轍 fù zhé the tracks of a cart that overturned / (fig.) a path that led to failure in the past syn
吱声 吱聲 zhī shēng to utter a word / to make a sound / to cheep / to squeak / also pr. [zi1 sheng1] syn
心力衰竭 xīn lì shuāi jié heart failure
吭声 吭聲 kēng shēng to utter a word syn
悲鸣 悲鳴 bēi míng to utter a mournful cry / wail / groan syn
功败垂成 功敗垂成 gōng bài chuí chéng to fail within sight of success (idiom) / last-minute failure / to fall at the last hurdle / snatching defeat from the jaws of victory syn
吭气 吭氣 kēng qì to utter a sound syn
决胜负 決勝負 jué shèng fù to determine success or failure
涂炭 塗炭 tú tàn extreme distress / in utter misery
失败率 失敗率 failure rate
吹 chuī to blow / to play a wind instrument / to blast / to puff / to boast / to brag / to end in failure / to fall through syn
吭 kēng to utter syn
歉收 qiàn shōu crop failure / poor harvest syn
马失前蹄 馬失前蹄 mǎ shī qián tí lit. the horse loses its front hooves / fig. sudden failure through miscalculation or inattentiveness syn
倒栽葱 倒栽蔥 dào zāi cōng to fall headlong / (fig.) to suffer an ignominious failure
三七开 三七開 sān qī kāi ratio seventy to thirty / thirty percent failure, seventy percent success
失迎 shī yíng failure to meet / (humble language) I'm sorry not to have come to meet you personally syn
馑 饉 jǐn time of famine or crop failure
铩羽而归 鎩羽而歸 shā yǔ ér guī (idiom) to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions
报忧 報憂 bào yōu to report bad news / to announce failure, shortcoming or disaster
胯下之辱 kuà xià zhī rǔ lit. the humiliation of having to crawl between the legs of one's adversary (as Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Han2 Xin4] supposedly did rather than engage in a sword fight) (idiom) / fig. (endure) utter humiliation
坐观成败 坐觀成敗 zuò guān chéng bài to sit and await success or failure (idiom) / to wait to see the outcome of a fight before taking sides / to sit on the fence syn
成败利钝 成敗利鈍 chéng bài lì dùn succeed or fail, sharp or blunt (idiom) / advantages and disadvantages / success and failure / You win some, you lose some. syn
成败得失 成敗得失 chéng bài dé shī lit. success and failure, the gains and losses (idiom) / fig. to weigh up various factors
成败论人 成敗論人 chéng bài lùn rén to judge people based on their success or failure (idiom)
漏排比率 clearance failure ratio / clearance-to-failure ratio / proof factor
验证因子 驗證因子 clearance failure ratio / clearance-to-failure ratio / proof factor
阴沟里翻船 陰溝裡翻船 yīn gōu lǐ fān chuán to meet with unexpected failure (idiom) / to fail miserably (where failure was not expected)
唱喏 chàng rě (old) to bow and utter polite phrases / to open the way (for a dignitary etc) syn
钳马衔枚 鉗馬銜枚 qián mǎ xián méi with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom) / (of a marching army) in utter silence
失败是成功之母 失敗是成功之母 shī bài shì chéng gōng zhī mǔ Failure is the mother of success.
三七开定论 三七開定論 sān qī kāi dìng lùn thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong
以失败而告终 以失敗而告終 yǐ shī bài ér gào zhōng to succeed through failure / to achieve one's final aim despite apparent setback
前车之覆，后车之鉴 前車之覆，後車之鑒 qián chē zhī fù , hòu chē zhī jiàn lit. the cart in front overturns, a warning to the following cart (idiom) / fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor / learn from past mistake / once bitten twice shy
失仪 失儀 shī yí discourteous / failure of etiquette
失责 失責 shī zé breach of responsibility / failure to carry out one's duty
后车之鉴 後車之鑒 hòu chē zhī jiàn lit. warning to the following cart (idiom) / don't follow the track of an overturned cart / fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor / learn from past mistake / once bitten twice shy syn
成也萧何，败也萧何 成也蕭何，敗也蕭何 chéng yě xiāo hé , bài yě xiāo hé lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Han2 Xin4] being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军[da4 jiang1 jun1] / fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor
绝产 絕產 jué chǎn crop failure / property left with no-one to inherit / sterilization
不遵守 bù zūn shǒu failure to comply
玩完 wán wán (coll.) to end in failure / to come to grief / to bite the dust
知情不报 zhī qíng bù bào failure to report
作物歉收 zuò wù qiàn shōu crop failure
漏排 clearance failure
清雷不达标 清雷不達標 qīng léi bù dá biāo clearance failure
未爆率 failure rate
失效率 failure rate
计算机系统故障 計算机系統故障 jì suàn jī xì tǒng gù zhàng computer system failure
导爆索故障 導爆索故障 detonating cord failure
故障间隔平均时间 故障間隔平均時間 mean time between failure
吹台 吹臺 chuī tái (coll.) to fall through / to result in failure / (of a relationship) to break up
杠龟 槓龜 gàng guī (Tw) to lose one's shirt (gambling) / to meet with failure (from Taiwanese 摃龜, Tai-lo pr. [kòng-ku])
无疾而终 無疾而終 wú jí ér zhōng to die peacefully / (fig.) to result in failure (without any outside interference) / to come to nothing / to fizzle out
失婚 shī hūn to lose one's spouse (through marriage failure or bereavement)
无颜见江东父老 無顏見江東父老 wú yán jiàn jiāng dōng fù lǎo (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)
单点故障 單點故障 dān diǎn gù zhàng single point of failure
跟斗 gēn dou somersault / fall / tumble / (fig.) setback / failure syn
一事无成 一事無成 yī shì - wú chéng (idiom) to have achieved nothing / to be a total failure / to get nowhere syn
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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