失败 (shībài) means Be defeated (fail). Below are 23 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
失败 是成功之母。
Shībài shì chénggōng zhī mǔ.
Failure is the mother of success.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 失败
失败 了也别灰心。
Shībài le yě bié huī xīn.
Do not lose heart even if you fail.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 灰心
这就是 失败 的原因。
Zhè jiù shì shībài de yuányīn.
This is exactly why it failed.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 原因
失败 后他有点消极。
Shībài hòu tā yǒudiǎn xiāojí.
After failing he became a little dispirited.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 消极
失败 之后要认真反思。
Shībài zhīhòu yào rènzhēn fǎnsī.
After a failure one should reflect seriously.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 反思
不要讥笑别人的 失败 。
Bú yào jīxiào biéren de shībài.
Do not sneer at other people's failures.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 讥笑
失败 往往能带来启示。
Shībài wǎngwǎng néng dàilái qǐshì.
Failure often brings enlightenment.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 启示
失败 了一次就别泄气。
Shībài le yí cì jiù bié xièqì.
Don't lose heart just because you failed once.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 泄气
这次 失败 也是一种经验。
Zhè cì shībài yě shì yì zhǒng jīngyàn.
This failure is a kind of experience too.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 经验
这次 失败 对他打击很大。
Zhè cì shībài duì tā dǎjī hěn dà.
This failure was a great blow to him.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 打击
失败 让他一度非常沮丧。
Shībài ràng tā yídù fēicháng jǔsàng.
The failure left him deeply dejected for a time.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 沮丧
我们应该正确看待 失败 。
Wǒmen yīnggāi zhèngquè kàndài shībài.
We should look at failure in the right way.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 看待
他准备不足,以致 失败 。
Tā zhǔnbèi bùzú, yǐzhì shībài.
He was inadequately prepared, and so failed.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 以致
故事里的敌人最后 失败 了。
Gùshi lǐ de dírén zuìhòu shībài le.
The enemy in the story was defeated in the end.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 敌人
这次 失败 给了他一个教训。
Zhè cì shībài gěi le tā yí ge jiàoxun.
This failure taught him a lesson.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 教训
失败 之后应该好好检讨原因。
Shībài zhīhòu yīnggāi hǎohāo jiǎntǎo yuányīn.
After a failure one should carefully examine the reasons.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 检讨
连续的 失败 削弱了他的信心。
Liánxù de shībài xuēruò le tā de xìnxīn.
Repeated failure weakened his confidence.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 削弱
他把 失败 当作鞭策自己的动力。
Tā bǎ shībài dàngzuò biāncè zìjǐ de dònglì.
He treats failure as a force that drives him on.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 鞭策
那次 失败 反而激发了他的斗志。
Nà cì shībài fǎn'ér jīfā le tā de dòuzhì.
That failure actually fired up his fighting spirit.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 激发
第一次尝试 失败 了,但他没有放弃。
Dì yī cì chángshì shībài le, dàn tā méiyǒu fàngqì.
The first attempt failed, but he did not give up.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 尝试
Reading these is one thing; producing 失败 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the travel phrasebook
Questions about 失败
How is 失败 used in a sentence?
This page shows 23 sentences using 失败 (shībài, "Be defeated (fail)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 失败 an HSK word?
Yes — 失败 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 失败?
The dictionary page for 失败 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
Keep going
Read the full entry for 失败, write a sentence of your own and check it in the Pinyin Annotator, drill it with HSK 4 flashcards, or search the whole sentence bank for another word.
Another word
Chinese, pinyin or English. Tone marks optional.