frailties

英 [ˈfreɪltiz]

美 [ˈfreɪltiz]

n.  虚弱; 衰弱; (性格或道德上的)弱点，懦弱，软弱
frailty的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 弱点;脆弱
  If you refer to thefrailtiesorfrailtyof people, you are referring to their weaknesses.
  1. ...the frailties of human nature.
     人性的弱点
  2. ...a triumph of will over human frailty.
     意志战胜人性弱点
• N-UNCOUNT (体质的)虚弱
  Frailtyis the condition of having poor health.
  1. She died after a long period of increasing frailty.
     在很长一段时间里，她身体日渐虚弱，最后离开人世。

双语例句

• But too often, human frailties gum up the works by leaving unforeseen breaches in otherwise secure systems.
  但情况经常是，人为过失在原本安全的系统中留下意外的漏洞，把事情弄糟。
• He loved her in spite of her little frailties.
  虽然她在品德上有些小缺点，他依然爱她。
• Whatever the frailties of these calculations, they are the best we have.
  不管这些计算存在何种缺陷，它们都是我们所拥有的最佳方法。
• A liking for flattering is one of his frailties.
  喜欢听奉承话是他的一个弱点。
• One of his frailties of human nature is laziness.
  他的弱点之一是懒惰。
• This makes it vulnerable to the human frailties: greed, fear, ignorance and fraud gallop, like horses of the apocalypse, across the history of finance.
  这就使它易受人类弱点的影响：贪婪、恐惧、无知和欺诈，就像启示录中的四马一样，驰骋在金融史上。
• All of us have our vanities and frailties.
  我们大家都有虚荣心和弱点。
• Many corporate treasurers will want to hold more cash than normal given the size of their firms 'debt and the frailties of the financial system.
  许多公司的财政主管会希望在衡量公司债务及金融制度弱点后，尽量更多地留着现金。
• Advisers spend their time covering up their boss's frailties and jockeying for influence.
  各类顾问们整日忙着掩盖他们老板的病情，而且还不择手段地为自身谋求影响力。
• In the cold war Western strategists probably spent too much time worrying about the Soviet Union's military clout, and not enough analyzing its commercial frailties.
  冷战中西方战略家们花了太多时间担心苏联的军事力量，却忽略了其经济上的脆弱。