「名师点拨」

（1） failure意为"失败"时，是不可数名词；意为"失败者；失败的事"时，是可数名词。

如：As we all know， failure is the mother of success. At last， he was a great success， while she was a failure. To our disappointment， the party turned out to be a failure.

（2） overcome v.意为"控制（感情）；克服（困难）；征服；战胜"，可用于to overcome difficulties / obstacles / problems / resistance等。

如：He made great efforts to overcome the difficulty. They succeeded to overcome the tallest mountain in the world.

「知识拓展」fail还可作动词，意为"失败；不及格；无法做到"，可用fail to do sth或者fail in doing sth.如：I failed to persuade him to give up smoking. = I failed in persuading him to give up smoking.

6. in search of

「课文原句」The film is set in California in the middle of the nineteenth century when gold was discovered and thousands of people rushed there in search of it. （P18）

「名师点拨」in search of意为"寻找"。类似的词组有：in the／a／one's search for／of，make a search for／of，在这三个短语中search是名词。