foible 的定义
- a minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect: an all-too-human foible.
- the weaker part of a sword blade, between the middle and the point.
foible 近义词
personal imperfection
更多foible例句
- Human foibles have never been more readily apparent, or more easily exposed.
- It’s a provocative, entertaining book that, much like Wolfe did, exposes our collective foibles and makes everybody look a little cartoonish.
- These scientists aren’t necessarily familiar with the quirks and foibles of interferometric arrays.
- The Steelers are indeed playing awful football, but most of their foibles are on the offensive side of the ball.
- The narrative fleshes out humanlike foibles that strike chords in your heart.
- His foible met the flash of the other man's forte, and his blade bounced aside like a sprung bow.
- Il ne suffit pas de dire que l'esprit est foible, il faut lui faire sentir ses foiblesses.
- Emancipation is all a delusion, a foible, a fantasy, an idle dream!
- Judith consented to consult her; Mary soon found out the foible of the poor woman.
- And now and then a human foible might be recorded by the stonemason without risk of undermining society's foundations.