to a fault

1. Pilots were trying to repair a fault in the plane when it crashed
   飞行员正在试图排除飞机故障的时候，飞机坠毁了。
2. Jefferson was generous to a fault
   杰斐逊大方得过了头。
3. Others will tell you that she is modest to a fault, funny, clever and warm.
   别人会告诉你她有趣、聪明又热情，谦逊得过了头。
4. In this case, the destination machine cannot be reached due to a fault.
   在这里，由于故障无法连接目的地机器。
5. To lose the plot can mean either to become angry and/ or exasperated to a fault, or in a derogatory if slightly outdated sense to mean someone who has become irrational and/ or acting ridiculously.
   所谓tolosetheplot可以指变得很生气或愤怒到了缺乏逻辑了，或者用于贬义可能有些过时了的意思表示某人没有理智、表现极为荒谬。
6. His hospitality was great, almost to a fault, and he seldom came home without bringing a guest.
   另外，他还是一个极其好客的人，这几乎成了他的一个性格弱点，他很少有不带客人回家的时候。
7. He's lavish in his response to life and generous to a fault.
   他对待生活慷慨大方，对待错误态度宽容。
8. He is tough to a fault is Joseph: but it's a great name, Sir.
   不过这是个伟大的姓，先生。
9. But he does not believe that to a fault to justify the abridgement of the rights of the consumers.
   但他认为公司不能以系统故障为由剥夺消费者的权利。
10. Well, this also means you need to have a fault tolerant SQL Server architecture.
    当然，这需要我们对BizTalk所部署的SQLServer进行了容错性的设计和架构。
11. Jogindranath, on the other hand, was gentle to a fault.
    另一方面，约根德纳特有过份温和的缺点。
12. "On the other hand, when the eyes are set too high up in the skull and too near the ears, it also amounts to a fault, the head being said to have a" foreign appearance.
    其他方面，如果眼睛位置太高，太靠近耳朵，也属于有缺陷，称为“外国表情”。眼神应该显示出热情。
13. "They were fine people: honest, industrious, and generous to a fault," declared the second traveler.
    第二位旅客宣称：「他们都是好人，诚实、勤奋、以及对别人的错误很宽容。
14. Critics say that ICBC has been cautious to a fault, missing some potentially good opportunities.
    批评人士指出，工行谨慎过度，错失了一些有潜力的优秀投资机会。
15. Power lines have set impedance per kilometre and using this value and comparing voltage and current the distance to a fault can be determined.
    通过对比电缆整定的单位千米阻抗值和电压电流值，来确定线路上的故障点。
16. At last the noise was traced to a fault in the pipes It is this failing which has produced a long saga of repeated recurrences following hernia operations.
    最终发现嗓音是由管子里的一处缺陷所致。传统手术的这一缺陷导致了历经一个多世纪的，连续不断的疝复发。
17. He's a very kind-hearted man, and generous to a fault.
    他是一个心地很善良的人，但过分慷慨了。
18. Generous to a fault, he was noted for his hospitality.
    他非常慷慨，以其好客而出名。
19. Unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work; a shy retiring girl.
    谦逊的对待错误，怀疑他的作品的价值；一个害羞而谦逊的女孩。
20. Tall and slender almost to a fault, she possessed in the highest degree the art of concealing this oversight of nature simply by the way she arranged the clothes she wore.
    她身材颀长苗条稍许过了点分，可她有一种非凡的才能，只要在穿着上稍稍花些功夫，就把这种造化的疏忽给掩饰过去了。
21. Complacent: Contented to a fault; self-satisfied and unconcerned.
    自满的：对缺点的满意；自我满足且不关心。
22. Reading through the problems in this book, I think I come over as unsentimental to a fault.
    读完本书中的种种问题，我想，我给人的印象可能过于冷静、理智，几乎已构成一种缺点。
23. The syntax of the language is brief to a fault. You never have to type an unnecessary character, or even to use the shift key much.
    语言本身的语法要极端简单扼要。让你无需键入多馀的字元，或是经常得来回切换大小写。
24. It is deliberate, fashioned by choices, generous to a fault; happy to put the other person's interests ahead of its own.
    它是深思熟虑后的选择，是对过错的包容，是把对方的利益置于自己利益之上而心甘情愿的选择。
25. Generous to a fault, she took all her friends out for a lavish dinner.
    她极为慷慨，请她所有的朋友出去吃了一顿丰盛的晚餐。
26. In addition, people who are ambitious and driven enough to become chief executives are forceful and self-confident to a fault.
    此外，野心勃勃、有志当首席执行官的人，都是既强势又过于自信的人。
27. John carries thoroughness to a fault; he spends many hours writing his reports.
    约翰花了太多的时间写报告，报告写得过份详细了。
28. Aunt Kathy wants everything in her house to be exactly right; she is neat to a fault.
    凯西姨妈要求她家里一切绝对井井有条。她爱整洁太过分了。
29. The Bush administration was accused of a martial unilateralism like none before it; the European Union appeared multilateralist to a fault, if not downright divided.
    布什政府前无古人的军事单边主义受到指责；欧盟则似乎多边过头了，如果说不上彻头彻尾的分裂的话。
30. Applied to a fault signals analysis, it can provide more new time-frequency attributes.
    将其应用于故障信号的分析，可以提供新的时频属性；

adv

1. to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
   1. too big

   Synonym:    excessivelyoverlytoo