foible
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
英汉例句
- 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。 - 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
双语例句
权威例句
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.