Weakness
['wiːknɪs] or ['wiknəs]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
康斯坦丁校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
贺拉斯校對
同義詞及反義詞：
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
艾琳編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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.
編輯:洛拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Against artillery of the present day the land forts and walls would prove elements of weakness rather than strength. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I had always felt my weakness, in comparison with her constancy and fortitude; and now I felt it more and more. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- 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. 簡·愛.
- It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The book treats of the weakness of human kind, and is in little esteem, except among the women and the vulgar. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The want of them, on some occasions, may even be a proof of weakness and imbecillity. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow,--a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- If I betray weakness, you will know how to excuse me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- 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. 雪麗.
- Lydgate's anger rose: he was prepared to be indulgent towards feminine weakness, but not towards feminine dictation. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Its weakness is the ease with which natural in the sense of normal is confused with the physical. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He lives at Pentonwil when he's at home,' observed the driver coolly, 'but we seldom takes him home, on account of his weakness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- 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. 威爾基·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. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Sir John had his share--perhaps rather a large share--of the more harmless and amiable of the weaknesses incidental to humanity. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- 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·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It's the fashionable way; and fashion and whiskers have been my weaknesses, and I don't care who knows it, says Mr. Jobling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Her duty is at his side; and luckily she seems always to have been blind to his private weaknesses. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- But my husband has his weaknesses, and he is so weak as to relent towards this Doctor. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- 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. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- And priestly government had its own weaknesses as well as its peculiar deep-rooted strength. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You charm me, Mortimer, with your reading of my weaknesses. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I have many weaknesses, but none greater. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- They take advantage of popular weaknesses. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They are great weaknesses--Damme, sir, they are great. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I have suppressed none of my many weaknesses on that subject, but have written them as faithfully as my memory has recalled them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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