formalFAIL when someone fails to do what they should do as part of their job 失职,玩忽职守,渎职
Examples from the Corpus
dereliction of duty• Retirement at a time when the opposition was strong was seen by many among them as a dereliction of duty.• It would be a dereliction of duty to talk to students only about firms, cheques, and the price of wheat.• Historiansnote that the Royal Family has survivedscandals, an abdication and dereliction of duty before.• This was a disgracefuldereliction of duty.• He should have been put up against a wall and shot, if you ask me, for dereliction of duty.• That is a grossdereliction of duty.• Agit-poppers constantly castigatepop for its dereliction of duty and its straying from being aligned.• The officer in charge was cleared of dereliction of duty.• Many parents, irrespective of class, must also stand condemned for similardereliction of duty.