"Fault" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 gù zhàng malfunction / breakdown / defect / shortcoming / fault / failure / impediment / error / bug (in software)
 quē diǎn weak point / fault / shortcoming / disadvantage / CL:個|个[ge4]
 shī wù lapse / mistake / to make a mistake / fault / service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)
 máo bìng fault / defect / shortcomings / ailment / CL:個|个[ge4]
 guò shī error / fault / (law) negligence / delinquency
 duǎn short / brief / to lack / weak point / fault
 bú shi fault / blame
 guò cuò mistake / fault / responsibility (for a fault)
 chā cuò mistake / slip-up / fault / error (in data transmission) / accident / mishap
 cuò shī fault / mistake / to miss (a chance)
 duàn céng fault (geology) / CL:道[dao4],個|个[ge4] / (fig.) gap / rupture (in the transmission of some skill) / (tomography) cross-sectional
 duǎn chù shortcoming / defect / fault / one's weak points
 cuò chu fault
 yóu outstanding / particularly, especially / a fault / to express discontentment against
 jiù fault / to blame / to punish / calamity / misfortune
 què Imperial city watchtower (old) / fault / deficiency
 yì lost / missing / forsaken / dissolute / (of a woman) beautiful / fault / offense / hermit / variant of 逸[yi4]
 chá fault / glass fragment / quarrel
 yóu fault / mistake
 bù wěi fault / error
 wéi shī fault / mistake / shortcoming / error / misconduct
 qiān yóu crime / offense / fault
 zhǐ zé to criticize / to find fault with / to denounce
 zhǎo xún to look for / to seek / to find fault
 wú xiè kě jī (idiom) impossible to fault / impeccable
 xiè zuì to apologize for an offense / to offer one's apology for a fault
 zhǎo chá to pick fault with / to spot the differences / to nitpick / to pick a quarrel / to find complaint with
 gù zhàng pái chú fault resolution / trouble clearing
 pǐn tóu lùn zú lit. to assess the head and discuss the feet (idiom) / minute criticism of a woman's appearance / fig. to find fault in minor details / nitpicking / overcritical
 bù rèn zhàng not to own up / not to admit a fault
 huì jí jì yī hiding a sickness for fear of treatment (idiom) / fig. concealing a fault to avoid criticism / to keep one's shortcomings secret / to refuse to listen to advice
 rèn zhàng to own up to a fault / to admit the truth / to acknowledge a debt
 píng tóu lùn zú lit. to assess the head and discuss the feet (idiom) / minute criticism of a woman's appearance / fig. to find fault in minor details / to remark upon a person's appearance / nitpicking / overcritical / judgmental
 zhāo guò xī gǎi to correct in the evening a fault of the morning (idiom) / to quickly amend one's ways
 zǎo gòu suǒ cī to wash the dirt to find a defect (idiom) / to find fault / to nitpick
 chóng yǐng overlapping images / double exposure of photo (e.g. due to fault or motion of camera) / double vision
 duàn liè dài fault zone (geology)
线 cǎi xiàn to scout for a tour operator / to reconnoiter a potential tour itinerary / (tennis) to commit a foot fault
 zhǎo cì r to find fault
 dān fāng guò shī pèng zhuàng collision in which only one party is at fault
 zhǎo chà zi to look for blemishes / to find fault / nitpicking
 zhǎo chá r to pick a quarrel / to find fault / nitpicking
 tiāo máo tī cì to find fault / to carp / nitpicking
线 duàn céng xiàn geological fault line
 zhèng duàn céng normal fault (geology)
 duàn cuò wù segmentation fault
 Shèng An1 de liè sī duàn céng San Andreas Fault, California / also written 聖安德列斯斷層|圣安德列斯断层
 Shèng An1 dé liè sī duàn céng San Andreas Fault, California
 jiǎo wù foot fault (tennis etc)
 jiǎo wéi lì foot fault (tennis etc)
 chōng duàn céng thrust fault (geology) / compression fault
 fù yǒu zé rèn at fault / blamed for / responsible (for a blunder or crime)
 zǒu xiàng duàn céng strike fault (geology)
 zǒu xiàng huá dòng duàn céng strike-slip fault (geology) / fault line where the two sides slide horizontally past one another
 zhuǎn huàn duàn céng transform fault (geology)
 nì duàn céng reverse fault (geology) / compression fault, where one block pushes over the other at dip of less than 45 degrees
 shuāng wù double fault (in tennis)
 jī dàn li tiāo gǔ tou to look for bones in an egg / to find fault / to nitpick (idiom)
 lǐng zuì to confess one's fault / to accept one's punishment
 Lóng mén shān Mt Longmen, the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin, an active geological fault line / Mt Longmen in Shandong / Mt Longmen in Henan
 Lóng mén shān duàn céng Longmenshan fault line, a tectonically active thrust fault line at the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin
 Lóng mén duàn céng Longmenshan fault line, a tectonically active thrust fault line at the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin
  Romanche transform fault
 duàn céng miàn fault plane
  transform fault
  dip-slip fault
  transcurrent fault
  fault management
  fault tree analysis / fault tree technique
 lǐ duō rén bù guài nobody will find fault with extra courtesy (idiom) / courtesy costs nothing
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