Weakness
['wiːknɪs] or ['wiknəs]
解释:
(noun.) the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain; 'his weakness increased as he became older'; 'the weakness of the span was overlooked until it collapsed'.
(noun.) a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you; 'he has a weakness for chocolate'.
(noun.) the condition of being financially weak; 'the weakness of the dollar against the yen'.
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解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.
(n.) That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect.
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同义词及反义词：
SYN:Debility, feebleness, enervation, dilution, impairment, languor, imbecility,infirmity, decrepitude, frailty, faintness, inconclusiveness, worthlessness,want
ANT:Strength, power, nerve, spirit, renovation, vigor, lustiness, tone, cogency,activity, conclusiveness, efficiency, value, abundance
艾琳编辑
娱乐性解释：
n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.
编辑:洛拉
例句:
- Against artillery of the present day the land forts and walls would prove elements of weakness rather than strength. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- I had always felt my weakness, in comparison with her constancy and fortitude; and now I felt it more and more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- It is the Rock of Ages I ask you to lean on: do not doubt but it will bear the weight of your human weakness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- The book treats of the weakness of human kind, and is in little esteem, except among the women and the vulgar. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- I could weep in the exquisite felicity of my heart and be as happy in my weakness as ever I had been in my strength. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The want of them, on some occasions, may even be a proof of weakness and imbecillity. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow,--a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- If I betray weakness, you will know how to excuse me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- My uncle will be full of horror, weakness, precipitation; and that is the only expedient which will suggest itself to him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Lydgate's anger rose: he was prepared to be indulgent towards feminine weakness, but not towards feminine dictation. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Its weakness is the ease with which natural in the sense of normal is confused with the physical. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- He lives at Pentonwil when he's at home,' observed the driver coolly, 'but we seldom takes him home, on account of his weakness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I had no right to hear them, no right to answer them--they were the words that banished me, in the name of her sacred weakness, from the room. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I am only in great misery at what I have done, and that, with the weakness, makes me seem mad. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- Sir John had his share--perhaps rather a large share--of the more harmless and amiable of the weaknesses incidental to humanity. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- One of her weaknesses was a desire to move in 'our best society', without being quite sure what the best really was. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- It's the fashionable way; and fashion and whiskers have been my weaknesses, and I don't care who knows it, says Mr. Jobling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Her duty is at his side; and luckily she seems always to have been blind to his private weaknesses. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- But my husband has his weaknesses, and he is so weak as to relent towards this Doctor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- If I had not been too old for the amiable weaknesses of youth, I believe I should have blushed at the notion of facing him myself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- As a general rule, Edison does not get genuinely angry at mistakes and other human weaknesses of his subordinates; at best he merely simulates anger. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- And priestly government had its own weaknesses as well as its peculiar deep-rooted strength. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- You charm me, Mortimer, with your reading of my weaknesses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I have many weaknesses, but none greater. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- They take advantage of popular weaknesses. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- They are great weaknesses--Damme, sir, they are great. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I have suppressed none of my many weaknesses on that subject, but have written them as faithfully as my memory has recalled them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
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