We have an open carriage outside, and as you would no doubt like to see the place before the light fails, we might talk it over as we drive. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
History fails to relate a great deal about the mechanical detail of the Pennington model, but it is said to have made a very creditable performance in exhibition. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
If it fails on its merits, he doesn't worry or fret about it, but, on the contrary, regards it as a useful fact learned; remains cheerful and tries something else. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
The ordinary course of action fails to give adequate stimulus to emotion and imagination. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
The artist studies the progress of his own attempts to see what succeeds and what fails. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
They take with them a quantity of food, and when the commissary department fails they skirmish, as Jack terms it in his sinful, slangy way. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
The conception always precedes the understanding; and where the one is obscure, the other is uncertain; where the one fails, the other must fail also. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
If she fails us, isn't there what you call the Gazette? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
It rarely fails to break perfectly true. 威廉K.戴维.智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
But the trooper fails to fasten the brooch. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
You _talk_ if anybody dies suddenly; you _talk_ if a fire breaks out; you _talk_ if a mill-owner fails; you _talk_ if he's murdered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
The merely practical man loses much by not knowing the backgrou nd of his activities; the mere theorist fails by mistaking the shadow for the substance. 李贝.西洋科学史.
You mean that Sir James tries and fails. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Now, he resumed, when a further period had elapsed, if she fails to come, I shall hate and scorn her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
At most he learns simply to improve his existing technique; he does not get new points of view; he fails to experience any intellectual companionship. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
You couldn't find the spot to which these people had repaired,' said Monks, 'but where friendship fails, hatred will often force a way. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
What is to be done with a human being that can be governed only by the lash,--_that_ fails,--it's a very common state of things down here! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
Where it fails of its end, it is only an imperfect means; and therefore can never acquire any merit from that end. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
If it fails with her, my power is gone. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
He refuses to make any abatement, because his threat is, that if he fails with me, he will come to you. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
The increase of demand, besides, though in the beginning it may sometimes raise the price of goods, never fails to lower it in the long-run. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
If she goes NOW, and if he fails, it will only confirm the general impression: which isn't by any means peculiar to Lefferts, by the way. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
It fails most just where it thinks it is succeeding--in getting a preparation for the future. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
His will is the mountain stream, which may indeed be turned for a little space aside by the rock, but fails not to find its course to the ocean. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
Mother's bar'ls is like dat ar widder's, Mas'r George was reading 'bout, in de good book,--dey never fails, said Mose, aside to Peter. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
And if he fails, then he will use force and plunder them. 柏拉图.理想国.
Still, if it fails--' 'And if it fails,' said she, advancing, and laying her hand on his arm, her eyes full of eager light. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
She has such a passion for it, I often tell her if everything else fails, she can be a horsebreaker, and get her living so. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
Artichoke professes his readiness so to do, endeavours to do so, but fails. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.