1.[u]责任；过错；过失the responsibility for sth wrong that has happened or been done
Why should I say sorry when it's not my fault ?不是我的错为什么要我道歉？
It's nobody's fault.谁都没有错。
It was his fault that we were late.我们迟到责任在他。
It's your own fault for being careless.你粗心大意是你自己的过失。
Many people live in poverty through no fault of their own .很多人生活贫困并非他们自己有什么过错。
I think the owners are at fault(= responsible) for not warning us.我认为业主没有提醒我们是有责任的。
2.[c]弱点；缺点a bad or weak aspect of sb's character
He's proud of his children and blind to their faults.他为孩子们感到自豪，对他们的缺点视而不见。
I love her for all her faults(= in spite of them) .尽管她有这么多缺点，我还是爱她。
3.[c]缺陷；毛病；故障something that is wrong or not perfect; something that is wrong with a machine or system that stops it from working correctly
The book's virtues far outweigh its faults.这本书优点远远大于缺点。
The system, for all its faults , is the best available at the moment.这个系统虽然缺点不少，却是现有最好的一个。
a major fault in the design设计中的一个重大失误
a structural fault结构缺陷
an electrical fault电路故障
4.[c]发球失误a mistake made when serving
He has served a number of double faults in this set.他在这盘发球出现了一些双误。
5.[c]（地壳岩层的）断层a place where there is a break that is longer than usual in the layers of rock in the earth's crust
the San Andreas fault圣安德烈亚斯断层
a fault line断层线
She is generous to a fault.她过分慷慨。
She is generous to a fault.她过分慷慨。
1.~ sb/sth发现错误；找出缺点to find a mistake or a weakness in sb/sth
Her colleagues could not fault her dedication to the job.她的同事认为她的敬业精神是无可挑剔的。
He had always been polite─she couldn't fault him on that.他总是彬彬有礼，在这方面她对他无可指摘。
He thought the task of any intellectual was to make ideas as interesting as possible, and in this he succeeded to a fault.
他认为，任何一名知识分子的任务都是将思想用尽可能生动有趣的方式表述出来；事实上在这一点上他做的可以说有过之而无不及。
Somehow, people seem to think it's my fault for letting him in.
不知怎的，人们似乎认为让他进来是我的过错。
The former chairman of one of Germany's largest companies says spying "is all the fault of co-determination" .
一家德国大型企业的前任董事长表示，间谍活动“应完全归咎于共同决议制”。
Even if the whole world laugh at me, love Who can say the wrong person, even if the world's fault, me, and I as long as you follow me!
就算全世界都笑我，爱个人谁敢说错，就算全世界都怪我，我只要你跟我走！
Some Chien-wen of the mind and the history books, the time set out in a year or more some of relative fault.
有些简文所记与史书所载的时间相错一年或更多些。
It's my fault! said Clare. But talking did not help. The Tess he had first loved had separated her body from her soul.
“这是我的错呀！”克莱尔说。对是这已经无济于事了。他最初爱过的苔丝已把她的身躯从她的灵魂中分离开了，
After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault.
在她跟父母就自己的未来安排产生争执之后，她妈妈重病不起，让海伦娜觉得这一切都是自己的错。
I did not want to confuse you with the long sentences. You do not have to feel wrong. It was my fault.
我不想用长句子使你困惑。你不用非得感觉不对。这是我的错。
Don't childish. It is all west's fault of without sticking tightly the rule and therefore opening up the Pandora box.
别傻了，如果西方没有严格的遵循规则犯错的话，相当于打开的潘多拉铁盒。
Recognize that it is not their fault that you hurt them. Do not take your pain out on them.
认识伤害他们不是他们的错误。不要把自己的痛苦发泄道他们的身上。
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday that if the government were to run out of funds it would be the GOP's fault.
众议院少数党人鞭斯坦利•霍耶周二说如果政府花光了所有的经费，那就是共和党的错误。
Any sort of soft hair in the outer coat , wherever found on the body, especially on the top of the head, is a fault.
如果有些柔软的毛发，不论在身体上，尤其在头顶，属于缺陷。
When I came to, he always said it was my fault. He said if I told anyone or tried to contact my parents, he would kill them.
当我醒过来时，他总是说是我的错，他说如果我告诉任何人或者想要联系我的父母，他就会杀了他们。
I cannot lick the fault out of him.
我怎麽打他也纠正不了他的毛病。
And, you know, you can't fault him for accuracy, but, actually, Frankie, at that time, was a heroin addict, and he was in jail.
而且，你知道，他这句话你挑不出一点毛病，但是Frankie那时，是个瘾君子，而且他被关在监狱。
Until now I thought that this sort of accident was the owner's fault but now I know differently.
过去我一直认为这类事故是车主的过错，但现在我有了不同看法。
It is known to all that the shortage of carrier wave mode: great disturbance in channel make it difficult to transmit fault data.
众所周知，采用电力载波通信方式有着明显的缺点：通道干扰大，数据传输难以保障。
If Prebisch's reputation was one of the victims of that debt crisis, it was partly his fault.
如果这场债务危机让普雷维什声誉扫地，也多半错在他自己。
strike-slip fault - a fault on which the two blocks slide past one another. The San Andreas Fault is an example of a right lateral fault.
走滑断层-两个岩体顺断层面走向相对滑动的断层。圣安德烈斯断层是一个右旋断层的例子。
At present, I think it is cruel for you to be grown up! It is not your fault. To my surprise, you could understand a great many truths.
目前来说，要求你成熟一点对你来说是残忍的，这不是你的错！然而令我惊奇的是，你还是能明白一些事实的。
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