Pronounced /'diːfɔːlt/ for meaning 2. 义项 2 读作 /'diːfɔːlt/。
1
[VERB 动词]不履行;未支付 If a person, company, or country
defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
[V on n]
[oft N prep]
[LEGAL 法律]
The credit card business is down, and more borrowers are defaulting on loans...
信用卡业务出现了下滑,而且越来越多的借款者都不按期还款。
The first warning signals came in March when the company defaulted on its initial payment of £30 million.
第一次出现警示信号是在3月份,当时该公司未能按时交纳3,000万英镑的首期付款。
- Default is also a noun.
2
[ADJ 形容词]默认的 A
default situation is what exists or happens unless someone or something changes it.
...default passwords installed on commercial machines...
商用机器上设置的默认口令
Death, not life, is the default state of cells.
细胞的常态是死亡而不是存活。
3
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]默认值;缺省指令 In computing, the
default is a particular set of instructions which the computer always uses unless the person using the computer gives other instructions.
4
[PHRASE 短语](事情的发生)自动地(因可能阻止或改变结果之事未发生) If something happens
by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
[PHR after v]
[FORMAL 正式]
Spassky won the first game, and was awarded by the second by default, when Fischer failed to put in an appearance...
斯帕斯基赢了第一局,又因菲舍尔第二局未能上场而再胜一局。
I would rather pay the individuals than let the money go to the State by default.
我宁愿把这些钱付给个人,也不愿它们因未作任何处置而自动地归国家所有。
5
[PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]因…未发生;因…不可能 If something happens
in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
[PREP n/-ing]
[FORMAL 正式]
Malvolio becomes, in default of competition, the play's moral centre.
因为没有与其竞争者,马伏里奥自然成了该剧的道德核心。