| 单词 | frailty |
| 释义 | frailty (freɪlti ) Word forms: frailties 1. variable noun If you refer to the frailties or frailty of people, you are referring to their weaknesses. ...the frailties of human nature. [+ of] ...a triumph of will over human frailty. Synonyms: weakness, susceptibility, fallibility, peccability 2. uncountable noun Frailty is the condition of having poor health. She died after a long period of increasing frailty. Synonyms: infirmity, poor health, feebleness, puniness Collocations: human frailty This was a tragicomic story of human frailty. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The theory acknowledges human frailty and the fact that most of us relapse. Times, Sunday Times (2008) It became one of my favourite books in terms of its kindness and understanding of human frailty. Times, Sunday Times (2013) When you're a connoisseur of human frailty, as I am,' I said with mock grandiosity, ` believe me, it is never dull. RESCUING ROSE (2002) When television replays and closeups became possible, all this human frailty and professional ruthlessness became multiplied many times. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Yet this was not an issue simply for the very old, when other diseases and physical frailty play a greater part in decisions about surgery. Times, Sunday Times After a short remission, he was sliding back into another relapse of fevers and physical frailty, when our youngest son, aged 19, a music student, became unwell. Times, Sunday Times Yes, physical frailty precludes much. Times, Sunday Times Indeed, neither fear nor physical frailty, nor indeed self-awareness nor the remotest glimmer of selfdeprecation seem to interrupt the rise of his fame or the expansion of his personal empire. Times, Sunday Times The actor's usual subtlety was perhaps enhanced on this occasion by his personal experience (as an asthmatic) of physical frailty. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 弱点, 虚弱 Japanese: 弱さ, 衰弱 |
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