Infirmity
[ɪn'fɜːmətɪ] or [ɪn'fɝməti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age).
厄纳校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind.
(a.) A personal frailty or failing; foible; eccentricity; a weakness or defect.
整理:李奥娜
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Weakness (from age), feebleness, debility, imbecility.[2]. Foible, fault, failing, defect.
佛瑞德整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Weakness, decrepitude, unsoundness,[See INFIRM]
ANT:Strength, vigor, healthfulness, soundness
校對:凯特
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of infirmities, denotes misfortune in love and business; enemies are not to be misunderstood, and sickness may follow. To dream that you see others infirm, denotes that you may have various troubles and disappointments in business.
阿尔塔編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Almost every class of artificers is subject to some peculiar infirmity occasioned by excessive application to their peculiar species of work. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- When is a man to be safe from such wit, if age and infirmity will not protect him? 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- This natural infirmity I may very much regret, and I may endeavour, by all possible means, to free my self from it. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- He found his brother-in-law in a condition of pitiable infirmity--and dreadfully afraid of Rebecca, though eager in his praises of her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She went once with Jo, but the old gentleman, not being aware of her infirmity, stared at her so hard from under his heavy eyebrows, and said Hey! 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Few people had discovered some cowardice and much infirmity of purpose under this imposing exterior. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It's always a pleasure to me to be tender towards human infirmity, he said. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Pend upon it, Sammy, it's a constitootional infirmity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I like to be tender to human infirmity--though I don't get many chances of exercising that virtue in my line of life. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- At eleven, on Thursday morning, Superintendent Seegrave (who is a mass of human infirmity) points out to all the women servants the smear on the door. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- In man alone, this unnatural conjunction of infirmity, and of necessity, may be observed in its greatest perfection. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- No, no, no,' said Eugene; shocked--to do him justice--at the thought of trifling with her infirmity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- However, having an infirmity--for I am hard of hearing, sir-- I expressed in pantomime the greatest astonishment. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But the spirit of resignation and endurance that had so long upheld her, was unable to contend against bodily weakness and infirmity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He was not a man to discover infirmity in the presence of danger. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I wish that the dread of infirmities was not so strong in me! 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- We have been unfortunate, and recent events have drawn us from that every-day tranquillity befitting my years and infirmities. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- And to bear with my infirmities, Jane: to overlook my deficiencies. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But age has its little infirmities of temper, and she was not quite brought round yet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Dr. Franklin's increasing infirmities prevented his regular attendance at the council chamber, and in 1788 he retired wholly from public life. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- That's one of the many human infirmities which I always treat tenderly. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Mr. Pickwick nodded his readiness to humour the infirmities of age, and entered into a general conversation with the other members of the circle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- But with the blood of this ancient royal race, many of their infirmities had descended to Athelstane. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Have compassion on my infirmities for his sake. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- He procured prolonged leave of absence from the East India House, and indeed, his infirmities were daily increasing. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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