Equipment failure

equipment [ɪ'kwɪpmənt]

n. 设备，装备;器材，配件;（工作必需的）知识，素养;

equip配备，装备+ment表名词 →设备

failure ['feljɚ]

n. 失败，不及格;缺乏，不足;破产，倒闭;失败的事，失败者;

fail犯错误，欺骗+ure名词后缀→错误状态→失败

I've been studying all day, and I'm sick and tired of it.

我学了一天，现在感到厌倦。

What's your favourite pastime?

你喜爱的消遣是什么？

On our way home that night I looked down and saw that the necklace was not around my neck any more. I told Pierre. We rushed back to the palace and looked for it.We asked everyone there if they had found a necklace, but without luck. We couldn't find it;

那天晚上在回家的路上，我低头一看，发现项链不再挂在我的脖子上了。我告诉了比尔。我们马上赶回王宫去寻找。我们询问了那儿的每一个人，问他们是不是拾到了一条项链。可是，真倒霉。我们找不到那条项链；它丢失了。