Default

(noun.) loss due to not showing up; 'he lost the game by default'.

(noun.) act of failing to meet a financial obligation.

(verb.) fail to pay up.

手打:罗谢尔

• But in default of a listener, she had to brood over the change in her life silently as heretofore. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I'll give you one, in default of a better. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Of course, I thought you were but a shepherd boy, who, in default of god-parents, had to be called by the name of your birthplace. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Even highly critical and insurgent intelligences, in default of any sustaining movements in the soul of the community, betrayed the same disposition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Austria turned against him (1813); all Europe was eager to rise against this defaulting trustee of freedom, this mere usurper. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Deep was the dismay of surveillante teachers, deeper the horror of the defaulting directress. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

编辑:珀尔