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frailty

/freyl-tee, frey-uhl-/US // ˈfreɪl ti, ˈfreɪ əl- //UK // (ˈfreɪltɪ) //

体弱,虚弱,体弱多病,体质

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural frail·ties for 3.

    • : the quality or state of being frail.
    • : moral weakness; liability to yield to temptation.
    • : a fault resulting from moral weakness: frailties of the human flesh.

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Examples

  • If they don’t address issues that have arisen during the pandemic — muscle weakness, poor nutrition, disrupted sleep, anxiety, social isolation and more — these older adults face the prospect of poorer health and increased frailty, experts warn.

  • Equally vital is Goths’ ability to find humor, irony and beauty in supposedly “ugly” sources, such as flowers that grow by a cemetery or the absurd frailties of the aging body.

  • You’ve also taken a mature position on your parents and their frailties.

  • A lovely, empathetic novel about middle-aged mental frailty.

  • For many seniors, driving represents the difference between isolation and the frailty spiral.

  • “This can then lead to inactivity, which can lead to frailty, then to ill health,” she says.

  • These Republicans still frighten voters with visions of an old age in poverty and frailty.

  • But we also need to recognize that racial bias is a human frailty of even good, well-meaning people.

  • He who shall pass judgment on the records of our life is the same that formed us in frailty.

  • In the after days he won yet more glory and confidence, despite this showing of human frailty.

  • Mr. Seward was no exception to this common frailty among mankind.

  • He dreamt of man, but chiefly of God—of Gods goodness and greatness, of mans impotence and frailty.

  • One always looks with some suspicion—such is the frailty of editorial and other samples of human nature!