流逝汉英词典

foible

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 ['fɒɪb(ə)l]
  • 美式音标 [ˈfɔɪ.bəl]
  • 国际音标 ['fɔibl]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n.小缺点；小毛病

词根记忆

  • 与feeble(adj.虚弱的，衰弱的)一起记

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • It is a big foible of all the people.
    这是一个全体人民的大怪癖。
  • Sometimes a given page presented me with the challenge of deciding which design foible to point out.
    有时，一个给定页面交给我，要我指出设计的毛病来是一个挑战。
  • Today, however, the much-maligned human foible is being looked at in a different light.
    然而今天，人们却从一个不同的角度来看待这个万人怨的人类弱点。

    • 权威例句

  • 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

词组短语

    短语

  • foible cocoon 绵茧
  • foible e 剑身弱部;小缺点
  • Dan Foible 主要角色
  • Foible of liking suit -dress 女装癖

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • a strange habit or characteristic that is seen as not important and not harming anyone

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • A foible is a habit or characteristic that someone has which is considered rather strange, foolish, or bad but which is also considered unimportant.