词汇释义
foible TEM8 GRE
UK /ˈfɔɪ.bəl/ US /ˈfɔɪ.bəl/
noun, a silly habit or a strange or weak aspect of a person's character, that is considered harmless by other people. （性格上无伤大雅的）怪癖，弱点，小缺点
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外刊例句
1. For all of Ms. Reynolds’s organizational foibles, she did not fail at friendship.(New York Times)
2. All our choices are shaped by who we are, our life experiences and our foibles.(New York Times)
3. Mr. Zhang appeals to the humanity of his audience and, by admitting his own foibles, shows the authorities and the public that he is merely human, too.(New York Times)
4. People who support them, he said, “see them as a doorway to a potentially attractive future, and we’re often more forgiving of their foibles.”(Washington Post)
5. It reconstructs his reporting on Vietnam, his feuds with Henry Kissinger, the foibles of former bosses like A.M.(New York Times)
6. Such uncertainties may explain why boards often miss the moment when a founder’s comportment goes from a foible to a liability.(New York Times)
7. None of these foibles will be a surprise to, well, humans.(TheEconomist)
8. Maybe the most important lesson here is to be more forgiving of the foibles of others and hope that kindness will carry through to your own red-faced situations.(Forbes)
9. These are the situations I often hear clients fret about and it’s hard to build an estate plan that anticipates every possible human foible.(Forbes)
10.The relationship between the Rajaratnam brothers seesawed over the years, DealBook reported, with the older brother protective but sometimes irritated with his sibling’s foibles.(New York Times)
11. The whole range of human foibles is catalogued in the nine seasons that his self-named show was on the air.(Forbes)
12."These foibles used to be faintly amusing, but now they're becoming threatening," he said.(The Guardian)
词汇搭配
human, little foibles
词汇家族
foibles
词汇来源
1640s, "weak point of a sword blade" (contrasted to forte), from French foible "a weak point, a weakness, failing," from noun use of Old French adjective feble "feeble" (see feeble). The spelling borrowed in English is obsolete in modern French, which uses faible. Extended sense of "weak point of character" is first recorded 1670s.
近义词
demerit, dereliction, failing, fault, frailty, shortcoming, sin, vice, want, weakness
反义词
excellence, perfection, goodness, integrity, probity, rectitude, righteousness,merit, virtue
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