defeat [di'fi:t]

vt. 击败，战胜；挫败；使…失败

n. 失败；战胜

There's no Egyptian record of the biblical Moses, no record of plagues, no record of a defeat of Pharaoh's army.

也没有圣经中摩西的埃及文记载，没有瘟疫的记录，没有战胜法老军队的记录。

failure ['feiljə]

n. 失败；故障；失败者；破产

failure可指失败者，defeat不可以。defeat 多数作动词。作名词一般指战胜。