foible
音標發(fā)音
- 英式音標 ['f??b(?)l]
- 美式音標 [?f??.b?l]
- 國際音標 ['f?ibl]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- n.小缺點；小毛病
詞根記憶
- 與feeble(adj.虛弱的，衰弱的)一起記
英漢例句
- It is a big foible of all the people.
這是一個全躰人民的大怪癖。 - Sometimes a given page presented me with the challenge of deciding which design foible to point out.
有時，一個給定頁麪交給我，要我指出設(shè)計的毛病來是一個挑戰(zhàn)。 - Today, however, the much-maligned human foible is being looked at in a different light.
然而今天，人們卻從一個不同的角度來看待這個萬人怨的人類弱點。 - Maybe her supporters should stop defending her every foible and help her with her education instead.
FORBES: The Sad Defense of Sarah Palin's Botched History - Will Petraeus be thought of, in time, as a hero guilty of no more than a distracting foible?
NEWYORKER: General Principles - Whenever a local foible or tradition grabbed his interest, such as the country's idiosyncratic waterway laws, he would research it exhaustively.
ECONOMIST: Entrepreneurship in Shanghai: Mandarin mogul
雙語例句
權(quán)威例句
英英字典
- a strange habit or characteristic that is seen as not important and not harming anyone
- A foible is a habit or characteristic that someone has which is considered rather strange, foolish, or bad but which is also considered unimportant.