frailty
柯林斯詞典
1. N-VAR If you refer to the frailties or frailty of people, you are referring to their weaknesses. 弱點
...the frailties of human nature. …人性的弱點。
2. N-UNCOUNT Frailty is the condition of having poor health. 虛弱
She died after a long period of increasing frailty. 她日益虛弱,經(jīng)過一段長時間后去世了。
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frailty /?fre?lt?, ?fre??l-/ (frailties)
劍橋詞典
- [ 不可數(shù)或單數(shù)名詞:沒有復數(shù)形式的名詞 ]
weakness and lack of health or strength
脆弱;虛弱
Though ill for most of her life , physical frailty never stopped her from working . 盡管她一生中大部分時間都病魔纏身,但身體上的虛弱從未使她停止工作。
[ 可數(shù)名詞:有復數(shù)形式的名詞 or 不可數(shù)或單數(shù)名詞:沒有復數(shù)形式的名詞 ]
moral weakness
(道德上的)弱點,缺點
Most of the characters in the novel exhibit those common human frailties - ignorance and greed . 這部小說中的大多數(shù)人物都顯露出了人類共同的弱點——無知和貪婪。
Tolerant of human frailty in whatever form , she almost never judged people . 她對人性的各種弱點都能夠包容,幾乎從不評價他人。 返回 frailty