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

• A cohort of developing world nations is driving growth on the world's poorest continent, while the developed world tends to be pressing domestic frailties.
  一群发展中国家正在推动世界上最贫穷大陆的经济增长，而发达国家则往往在着力解决国内的弱点。
• A liking for flattering is one of his frailties.
  喜欢听奉承话是他的一个弱点。
• All of us have our vanities and frailties.
  我们大家都有虚荣心和弱点。
• 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。
• 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。
• One of John's frailties of human nature is laziness.
  约翰的弱点之一是懒惰。
• 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。
• Threading, for example, has frailties that have been known for many years.
  举例来说，线程存在很多年来人们已经知道的脆弱性。
• This tax inspector was demonstrating one of the most common of human frailties.
  这位稽查员，显露出一种最常见到的人性的弱点。
• 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。