详细解释
篑
1、(形声。从竹,贵声。本义:盛土的竹筐) 同本义。
为山九仞,功亏一篑。---《书·旅獒》
篑笼：运土用的竹具。如挑筐
功亏一篑：比喻做事只差最后一点力量而未能完成。
例句
这场比赛本该是他赢的—真是功亏一篑。
He should have won the match—it was a near miss.
为山九仞，功亏一篑。
The lack of one basketful of earth spoils the entire effort to build a nine-ren mountain.
为什么你不继续编纂你的词典呢？功亏一篑，你不觉得可惜吗？
Why do you discontinue compiling your dictionary? Don't you think it a pity to give it up when it is nearly completed?
几年的工作后，项目功亏一篑。
After several years of work, the project imploded.
杯到囗边也会失手；功亏一篑。
Theres many a slips twixt the cup and the lip.
如果某件事让你的努力功亏一篑怎么办呢？
What if this and that happens which completely ruins all of your efforts?
我们需要确定这次反应功亏一篑的原因所在。
We need to pinpoint the reasons why the response fell short.
到最后某一候选人功亏一篑几乎是在所难免的。
There seems to be, almost inevitably, one of their candidates will falter in the closing days, "he said."
无论我们的口才，我们是注定，总是功亏一篑。
And no matter our eloquence we are destined, always, to fall short.
只要当中任何一个人泄露，整个任务就会功亏一篑。
Any leak would have ruined the entire mission.
一旦睡眠不足，你考试周期间的所有学习都将功亏一篑。
All of that studying during finals week will be for nothing if you don't get enough sleep.
他们把嫌疑人送上法庭，然后在检察官那里就好像功亏一篑了。
They then bring them to court and then it sort of falls apart with the prosecutors, " he stated."
两天的磋商功亏一篑。美国和77国集团成员国都没有作出重大让步。
Neither the US nor the G77 group of countries have made any major concessions.
以下是公众英语演讲的一些禁忌，小心不要因小小细节而功亏一篑。
The following are some of the taboos, public speaking be careful not to fall short because of small details.
我只是得顾及这一严肃的情势：因为我，这个巨资制作可能功亏一篑。
I just concern on this serious situation that because of me this huge project would be failed.
这种原则性分歧导致国际社会在此方面的协同努力功亏一篑并停滞不前。
The disagreement as such has hampered the concerted efforts at an international level to cope with the problem.
毛毛虫变成蝴蝶，经过了千辛万苦的蜕变，如果它一旦放弃，那将功亏一篑。
Caterpillar becomes a butterfly, after a lot of hard work of transformation, if it once abandoned, it would fall short.
2008年有卡塔尔出面调解停火，最终却因萨利赫拒绝听从沙特建议而功亏一篑。
But an earlier ceasefire, mediated by Qatar in 2008, failed when Saleh refused to implement it on the advice of the Saudis.
在印度，易篑之人去诸如瓦拉纳西的圣地朝圣，以求火葬之后将骨灰撒入恒河之中。
In India the dying make pilgrimages to sacred sites, such as Varanasi, to be cremated and released into the River Ganges, India's holiest waterway.
另一个优点是有一个寒冷的进气改善燃油经济性的油门响应，大多数人都功亏一篑。
Another advantage to having a cold air intake is improved throttle response and fuel economy in most cases.
眼看离成功只有一步之遥，最后还是功亏一篑，本周的打击让华盛顿人倍感苦涩和失望。
After they had at last come so close, this week's defeat was a bitter disappointment to Washingtonians.
宝咏很沮丧，任何工作到她手里她都可以做到最好，没想到这种关键的时候偏要功亏一篑。
Baoyong was very upset, she is able to do everything well. Unluckily, at this important moment, she fell short of success for lack of a final effort.
一些失业的求职者会主动表示可以接受较前份工作低很多的薪酬，这种做法很可能会让你功亏一篑。
Some unemployed job hunters also hurt their chances by volunteering to take a significantly lower salary than what they earned in their last job.
遇到人生旅途的危机，一定要学会激励自己拿出气魄，百折不挠，九十九折而却步，便会功亏一篑。
Meet the crisis of life travel, must master to encourage oneself to take out boldness of vision, arduous, 99 fold but step back, will fail by a small margin then.
遇到人生旅途的危机，一定要学会激励自己拿出气魄，百折不挠，九十九折而却步，便会功亏一篑。
Meet the crisis of life travel, must master to encourage oneself to take out boldness of vision, arduous, 99 fold but step back, will fail by a small margin then.