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

• 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。
• She continued to love him despite his many frailties.
  尽管他有很多缺点，但她仍爱他。
• I have been privileged to learn much about the very best in human nature and a fair amount too about its frailties, including my own.
  我有幸在担任这一职务时最真切地了解人的本性，也很大程度上了解了人的脆弱性，也包括我自己人性的脆弱性。
• One of his frailties of human nature is laziness.
  他的弱点之一是懒惰。
• To prevent future catastrophes, regulators should focus explicitly on how to provide safeguards against two all-too-human frailties explored by decades of work in behavioural economics: bounded rationality and limited self-control.
  为了预防未来的灾难，监管者应明确关注如何防范两个人性弱点：有限理性和有限自制力。数十年来，行为经济学一直在探究这两个完全符合人性的弱点。
• The missteps and frailties of every one else in the world were canvassed here with the most shameless publicity.
  在这里，人们毫无顾忌地公开谈论世上他人的失误和过失。
• He failed therein to take account of the frailties of human nature& the difficulties of matrimonial life.
  在此，他没有考虑到人性的种种弱点&夫妻生活的种种难处。
• It will overcome all of the frailties and drawbacks that devalued the system in more ways than one.
  它可以克服的弱点和贬值比一个方面的制度缺陷的。
• The fact indicates the economic frailties of this type of farming.
  这一事实表明，这种类型的农业在经济上有其脆弱性。
• One of John's frailties of human nature is laziness.
  约翰的弱点之一是懒惰。