Kodak's decision to file for bankruptcy（破产）protection is a sad, though not unexpected, turning point for a leading American corporation that pioneered consumer photography and dominated the film market for decades, but ultimately failed to adapt to the digital revolution.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
It wasn't that Kodak was blind to the future, said Rebecca Henderson, a professor at Harvard Business School, but rather that it failed to execute on a strategy to confront it
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
Kodak is an example of a firm that was very much aware that they had to adapt, and spent a lot of money trying to do so, but ultimately failed.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
Cheating undermines confidence and independence: the cheater is a fraud, and knows that without dishonesty, he/she would have failed.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
Early models often failed to withstand crashes, however, so in 1965 the device was completely redesigned and moved to the rear of the plane – the area least subject to impact – from its original position in the landing wells (起落架舱).
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
Laura Chigi, a grandmother at the march, says the local and national governments have failed to do anything about the crowds for decades, because they're only interested in tourism.
2018年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B
Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company's decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token ￡1 failed.
2015年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A
One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.
2016年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B
Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, once said "I've not failed."
2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B
Unlike the Americans, who felt that the markets knew best, the Europeans failed to anticipate how the markets would react to their endless borrowing.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文
It failed to protect the interests of American publishers.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
I'm sorry to hear that you failed the Physics course, Ted.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
She failed to arrive at the airport on time
出自-2013年12月听力原文
She failed to get into the supermarket last Saturday.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
The woman's company failed to make payments in time.
出自-2011年12月听力原文
It failed to arrive at its destination in time.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
The man failed to keep his promise.
出自-2010年6月听力原文
He failed in his negotiations with the Africans
出自-2010年6月听力原文
A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle changes can prevent cognitive decline in older adults.
2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C
As Vaclav Smil points out, "All the forecasts, plans, and anticipations cited above have failed so miserably because their authors and promoters thought the transitions they hoped to implement would proceed unlike all previous energy transitions, and that
2015年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
From the standpoint of a traditional educator, this outcome indicated that schooling had failed to help students think about ecosystems and extinction, major scientific ideas.
2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C
Originally from South America, the snails were accidentally introduced into the Ebro Delta by Global Aquatic Technologies, a company that raised the snails for fresh-water aquariums, but failed to prevent their escape.
2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
As soon as Christiansen saw the photos, he realized why he had failed to spot the caldera.
2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
David Brooks, author of the Social Animal: the Hidden Sources of Love,Character, and Achievement, appears to be the latest in a long line of writers who have failed to resist the temptation.
2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文
He failed to find any movie shows on it.
2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 选项
If Balto failed, it would mean disaster for Nome.
2016年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
She failed to get a scholarship.
2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 选项
The Jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.
2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
Those words made me see clearly that when I had fallen short in the past, it was seldom because I had tried and failed.
2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year—a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.
2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because they provide a service—as non-controversial and non-political heads of state.
2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
In other words, they all share a view that the international tax system has failed to keep up with the current economy.
2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Rage Against the Haze failed once state funding was cut.
2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the mid-20th century.
2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Then his marriage failed, his career burned out and his drinking became serious.
2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
They are acting because national governments-Britain s and others across Europe 一 have failed to do so.
2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.
2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ