Feeble
['fiːb(ə)l] or ['fibl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) lacking strength; 'a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude'- Nathaniel Hawthorne .
(adj.) pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; 'a feeble excuse'; 'a lame argument' .
埃维塔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
(superl.) Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion.
(v. t.) To make feble; to enfeeble.
埃西手打
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Weak, not strong.[2]. Debilitated, enervated, sickly, infirm, languishing, languid, drooping, frail.[3]. Faint, imperfect, not vigorous, not lively.
整理:辛克莱
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Wretched, weak, poor, frail, debilitated, dull, forceless, puny, nerveless,enfeebled, enervated, faint, infirm, incomplete, vain, fruitless, scanty,pitiable
ANT:Strong, robust, active, effective, successful, abundant
錄入:泽维尔
解釋/意思:
adj. weak: wanting in strength of body energy or efficiency: showing weakness or incapacity: faint: dull.—adj. Fee′ble-mind′ed weak-minded: irresolute.—n. Fee′bleness—(Spens.) Fe′blesse.—adv. Fee′bly.
黛博拉校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of being feeble, denotes unhealthy occupation and mental worry. Seek to make a change for yourself after this dream.
贝妮塔整理
例句/造句/用法:
- He laughed heartily at my feeble portrait of that gentleman, and said he was a man to know, and he must know him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Her mother seemed more than usually feeble. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I think so, Mas'r, said Tom; the poor crittur's sick and feeble; 't would be downright cruel, and it's what I never will do, nor begin to. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I do not speak to the feeble, or think of them: I address only such as are worthy of the work, and competent to accomplish it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- You are very feeble. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The term you use,' said Mr. Brownlow, sternly, 'is a reproach to those long since passed beyond the feeble censure of the world. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- On the other hand, Galton, after his classical study of mental imagery (1883), stated that scientific men, as a class, have feeble powers of visual representat ion. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- And so, under a short grove of feebler and feebler over-swinging lamps, out under the great grove of stars. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Joe's station and influence were something feebler (if possible) when there was company than when there was none. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- At the sound, the feebler spirit of Emmeline gave way; and, laying hold of Cassy's arm, she said, O, Cassy, I'm going to faint! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- In this way a much feebler current would be able to excite the magnet, and the recorder would mark at a much greater distance. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The feeblest imaginable current suffices to deflect the needle in one direction, which throws back the little beam of light upon it to the graduated front of the scale. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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