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VERB
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.
例句
The credit card business is down, and more borrowers are defaulting on loans...
信用卡業務出現了下滑，而且越來越多的借款者都不按期還款。
The first warning signals came in March when the company defaulted on its initial payment of ￡30 million.
第一次出現警示信號是在3月份，當時該公司未能按時交納3,000萬英鎊的首期付款。
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ADJ
默認的
A default situation is what exists or happens unless someone or something changes it.
例句
...default passwords installed on commercial machines...
商用機器上設置的默認口令
Death, not life, is the default state of cells.
細胞的常態是死亡而不是存活。
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N-UNCOUNT
默認值;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.
例句
The default is usually the setting that most users would probably choose.
默認選項通常是大多數用戶都會選擇的設置。
...default settings.
默認設置
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PHRASE
(事情的發生)自動地(因可能阻止或改變結果之事未發生)
If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
例句
Spassky won the first game, and was awarded by the second by default, when Fischer failed to put in an appearance...
斯帕斯基贏了第一局，又因菲舍爾第二局未能上場而再勝一局。
I would rather pay the individuals than let the money go to the State by default.
我寧愿把這些錢付給個人，也不愿它們因未作任何處置而自動地歸國家所有。
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PREP-PHRASE
因…未發生;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.
例句
Malvolio becomes, in default of competition, the play's moral centre.
因為沒有與其競爭者，馬伏里奧自然成了該劇的道德核心。