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单词 fallible
释义
falliblefal‧li‧ble /ˈfæləbəl/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINfallible
Origin:
1400-1500 Medieval Latin fallibilis, from Latin fallere ‘to deceive’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Steyer's murder trial showed that the justice system is fallible.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Any computer user soon discovers that sometimes hardware, and more often software, is extremely fallible.
  • For neural nets and genetic algorithms, it is not so much fallible as crude.
  • I am not urging that all observation statements should be discarded because they are fallible.
  • Needless to say, all such anecdotes and surveys are fallible.
  • On practically every issue the Comintern found itself in the role of an infallible body which had adopted a manifestly fallible policy.
  • The claims of the falsificationist are seriously undermined by the fact that observation statements are theory-dependent and fallible.
  • There is the fallible narrator, escaping his past, indulging his dandified sensibilities, inevitably sucked into danger beyond his understanding.
able to make mistakes or be wrong OPP  infallible:  Humans are fallible. These surveys are often a rather fallible guide to public opinion.fallibility /ˌfæləˈbɪləti/ noun [uncountable]
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