| 单词 | fallible |
| 释义 | fallible (once / 702 pages) adj As humans we are all fallible, because fallible means likely to make errors or fail. Nobody's perfect, after all. Fall down on the job and you're fallible. It's a forgiving way to say you screwed up. If a scientific experiment's data is fallible, that means you can't trust the numbers. More than just locking your keys in the car, fallible can allude to a lack of moral strength. If in addition to locking your keys in the car, you kissed your best friend's husband, you might try using "I'm fallible" as your defense. WORD FAMILYfallible: fallibility, infallible+/fallibility: fallibilities/infallibility: infallibilities/infallible: infallibility, infallibly USAGE EXAMPLESConservatives believe that human beings are fallible and prone to ambition, passion and selfishness. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) But financial markets are volatile and based on the moods and sentiments of fallible investors. Slate(Dec 16, 2016) Labeled data is thus fallible the way that human labelers are fallible. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) 1adj wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings I'm only a fallible human Syn frail, imperfect, weak human having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings 2adj likely to fail or make errors everyone is fallible to some degree Syn|Ant errant straying from the right course or from accepted standards erring, error-pronecapable of making an error undependable, unreliableliable to be erroneous or misleading weaklikely to fail under stress or pressure infallible incapable of failure or error foolproof, unfailingnot liable to failure inerrable, inerrant, unerringnot liable to error |
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