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

• Our many vanities and frailties.
  我们的许多虚荣心和软弱性。
• Economists may not admit it, but they are all too human, and prone to the usual human frailties of groupthink and an aggrandised assessment of their own abilities.
  经济学家们或许不承认这一点，但他们也都是人，容易犯群体思维这种人类常见的错误，而且容易高看自己的才能。
• She continued to love him despite his many frailties.
  尽管他有很多缺点，但她仍爱他。
• 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。
• Love of a mate provides us with another soul to feel kinship, with someone to share life with, some-one to be loved, in spite of shortcomings and human frailties.
  对配偶的爱让我们拥有了另-个可以感受亲情的灵魂，可以共度今生；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Regulation needs to be built on an understanding of such human frailties.
  监管需要建立在了解此类人性弱点的基础之上。