失灵

• The brakes would n't act .
  刹车失灵。
• The engine stalls out .
  发动机失灵。
• They could equally well be result of a faulty excision mechanism .
  它们也很可能是切断机理失灵的结果。
• The brakes failed .
  煞车失灵了。
• Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order .
  几年前，清真寺钟楼里的大钟失灵了。
• Every compartment had some minor breakage or malfunction to report .
  每间舱房总有些小毛病或机件失灵的事故上报。
• An adverse economic forecast will stimulate action intended to falsify it .
  不利的经济预报将会刺激人们作出使预报失灵的行动。
• What is the probability that exactly 3 machines will be out of service on the same day ?
  那么同一天恰有三台失灵的概率是多少？
• An equipment failure or accident on the moon could have left the astronauts stranded .
  在月球上如果有一种设备失灵或发生事故，宇航员就会进退失据。
• It was certainly not his intellect, which was amazingly spotty, marred by great gaps .
  那当然也不是因为他头脑如何灵敏--他的脑子有时也会大大失灵，漏洞百出。