| 单词 | weak point |
| 释义 | > as lemmasweak point e. weak point. (a) Of a thing: The point or feature where it is defective or unsound. (b) (A person's) weak point, a failing or weakness (moral or intellectual). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > point where something is defective or unsound frailtya1616 weak point1827 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > moral weakness > a moral weakness debilitya1533 frailtya1616 weakness1645 foible1673 feeble1678 foiblesse1685 weak point1827 (a) (b)1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth I. 183 Do you want to find out a person's weak points? Observe the failings he has the quickest eye for in others.1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. ii. 38 Other people betrayed consciousness of, and annoyance at her weak points.1865 J. S. Mill Auguste Comte 126 M. Littré..is a disciple only of the Cours de Philosophie Positive, and can see the weak points even in that. 1868 S. Neil Publ. Meetings 81 In it [sc. the peroration] the strong points should be enforced, and the weak should be slipped airily over. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 21 A magnificent view indeed it was... The weak point in it was that the country on one side was..excluded from view. 1875 H. James Roderick Hudson i, in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 8/1 Rowland, left alone, examined the statuette at his leisure... He discovered its weak points, but it wore well. 1883 A. Sidgwick Fallacies 218 To use it as a rough guide in finding the weak point of an argument. 1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 180 Every weak point in the fit of a saddle in a squadron should be known. 1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Apr. 263/3 The weak point of modern capitalism is the opportunity it gives of bad spending. weak point e. weak point. (a) Of a thing: The point or feature where it is defective or unsound. (b) (A person's) weak point, a failing or weakness (moral or intellectual). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > point where something is defective or unsound frailtya1616 weak point1827 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > moral weakness > a moral weakness debilitya1533 frailtya1616 weakness1645 foible1673 feeble1678 foiblesse1685 weak point1827 (a) (b)1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth I. 183 Do you want to find out a person's weak points? Observe the failings he has the quickest eye for in others.1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. ii. 38 Other people betrayed consciousness of, and annoyance at her weak points.1865 J. S. Mill Auguste Comte 126 M. Littré..is a disciple only of the Cours de Philosophie Positive, and can see the weak points even in that. 1868 S. Neil Publ. Meetings 81 In it [sc. the peroration] the strong points should be enforced, and the weak should be slipped airily over. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 21 A magnificent view indeed it was... The weak point in it was that the country on one side was..excluded from view. 1875 H. James Roderick Hudson i, in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 8/1 Rowland, left alone, examined the statuette at his leisure... He discovered its weak points, but it wore well. 1883 A. Sidgwick Fallacies 218 To use it as a rough guide in finding the weak point of an argument. 1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 180 Every weak point in the fit of a saddle in a squadron should be known. 1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Apr. 263/3 The weak point of modern capitalism is the opportunity it gives of bad spending. < as lemmas |
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