vulnerable 的定义
- capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
- open to moral attack, criticism, temptation, etc.: an argument vulnerable to refutation; He is vulnerable to bribery.
- open to assault; difficult to defend: a vulnerable bridge.
- Bridge. having won one of the games of a rubber.
- Biology, Ecology. likely to be classified endangered in the near future unless circumstances that threaten reproduction and survival improve, as categorized by the IUCN Red List: At least 15 percent of our vulnerable reptiles are turtles.Abbreviation: VU
vulnerable 近义词
open to attack
更多vulnerable例句
- More global production happens in areas that are highly vulnerable to climate change.
- I’ll keep talking about the issues that matter most to this district as so many vulnerable communities are trying to get through this pandemic and economic crisis.
- Gulf Coast refineries and petrochemical plants are often located in low-lying areas vulnerable to flooding.
- It is a controversial approach to the coronavirus pandemic because, in allowing the disease to spread unchecked, it puts more vulnerable groups, like the elderly and immunocompromised, at greater risk of death.
- Hence, those richly priced FANMAGs, along with other rockets such as Tesla, are highly vulnerable to a steep fall.
- Social media forces us to not only be vulnerable for our partner but for the whole world.
- Plus, his known drug dealings certainly made him vulnerable to blackmail.
- The masterpiece is huge, but structurally flawed and terribly vulnerable to seismic activity.
- They were individuals who were vulnerable to being recruited.
- Biden remembered the boy was in a physically vulnerable position: “leaning down on one of those slanted counters.”
- The elephant, as is well known, is easily vulnerable in one spot only,—the middle of the skull.
- If she became emotional, was vulnerable in her feelings, I knew that Roscoe's peace might be assured.
- "Just the other way," retorted Lorenza, delighted as angry persons are at having found the antagonist's vulnerable point.
- Every variety of danger was arising at once; the tempest was concentrated upon the vulnerable point; destruction was imminent.
- Finally, the earlier is the warmer season with less danger to vulnerable feet and requiring a lighter equipment.