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flaw

/flaw/US // flɔ //UK // (flɔː) //

缺陷,缺点,瑕疵,缺点是

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a feature that mars the perfection of something; defect; fault: beauty without flaw; the flaws in our plan.
    • : a defect impairing legal soundness or validity.
    • : a crack, break, breach, or rent.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to produce a flaw in.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to contract a flaw; become cracked or defective.

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Examples

  • An investigation by ProPublica and the Bay City News Foundation discovered flaws in the State Personnel Board investigation that led to her dismissal.

  • That means the bill has to be taken seriously even if it has flaws, says Berin Szoka, the founder and president of the thinktank TechFreedom.

  • The platform isn’t without its flaws and Smalls understands that, said executive creative director Veronica del Rosario.

  • Diamonds are made by Mother Nature, of course, so internal flaws are common, but many are too small to be seen by the naked eye.

  • The hackers were hunting for, and finding, previously unknown flaws, known as zero-day vulnerabilities.

  • An F-35 was destroyed on takeoff earlier in the year when a design flaw in its Pratt & Whitney F135 engine sparked a fire.

  • Rather than a flaw that heightens her appeal, it is a flaw that makes her difficult to forgive.

  • But the logic of the anti-interventionist left is built today around the same moral flaw that it was during the Cold War.

  • But the most glaring flaw is the decline in female directors.

  • How Wisconsin police discovered the lethal flaw before it became a national scandal.

  • The sharpened faculties have something of a lawyer's quickness in detecting a flaw in the indictment.

  • Its only flaw was a dangerous crack through the lamb's nose and front feet.

  • Athene (Roman Minerva) however, the goddess of wisdom, had a character without a flaw, and ranked with Apollo in wisdom.

  • There was not a flaw in the sequence of events, no possible reason for the suspicions which yet lingered at the back of his brain.

  • His whole scheme was complete, and he reviewed every point of it to make certain there was no flaw in it.