infirmity

英 [ɪnˈfɜːməti]

美 [ɪnˈfɜːrməti]

n.  (长期的)体弱，生病

复数：infirmities　

TOEFLIELTSTEM8医学

BNC.20636 / COCA.22525

牛津词典

noun

• （长期的）体弱，生病
  weakness or illness over a long period
  1. We all fear disability or infirmity.
     我们都害怕伤残或体弱。
  2. the infirmities of old age
     老年体弱

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (常指因年迈而)体弱的,虚弱的
  A person who isinfirmis weak or ill, and usually old.
  1. ...her aging, infirm husband.
     她年迈体弱的丈夫
  2. The infirmare people who are infirm.
     年迈体弱者
  3. We are here to protect and assist the weak and infirm.
     我们来这里保护、帮助年迈体弱者。

英英释义

noun

• the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
  Synonym:frailtydebilityfeeblenessfrailnessvaletudinarianism

双语例句

• What right had infirmity like his to burden itself with crime?
  象他这样一个柔弱的人如何承受得起罪恶的重负呢？
• You must overcome all difficulties; defeat your enemies; He overcame his shyness; She conquered here fear of mice; He overcame his infirmity.
  你必须战胜所有困难；战胜敌人；他战胜了自己的羞怯。
• And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
  耶稣看见，便叫过他来，对他说，女人，你脱离这病了。
• Old age and infirmity had begun to catch up with him.
  他开始显出年老体衰的样子了。
• We all fear disability of infirmity.
  我们都害怕伤残或体弱。
• Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
  好能同情无知和迷途的人，因为他自己也为弱点所纠缠。
• Human infirmity iin moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage;
  我把人在调节和控制情感上的软弱无力成为奴役。
• The Insured Person suffering from any pre-existing physical defect or infirmity which existed prior to inception of this policy.
  被保险人因本身存在的缺陷或病症，而此缺陷或病症在保单有效前已存在。
• Among the hurdles that must be overcome are the association of hearing loss with increasing age and infirmity and the psychological blow to one's self-esteem that this acknowledgment may entail.
  在这些困难当中，我们必须克服的是：听力损失与年纪增长、体质虚弱相关，还有可能必须承认精神上吹鼓的自尊。
• The old woman was suffering from age and infirmity.
  那个老妇人受年老体弱之苦。