flaw
flaw 英 [flɔ:] 美 [flɔ]
n. 瑕疵，缺点，裂缝，裂纹
进行时:flawing 过去式:flawed 过去分词:flawed 第三人称单数:flaws 名词复数:flaws
- A flaw can be a sign of weakness or defect. If you try to make wings and fly off the roof but wind up crashing in the gutter, there's a flaw in your plan.
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- n. 瑕疵，缺点，裂缝，裂纹
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1. The argument is full of fundamental flaws.
这段论述充满根本性的错误。
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2. The report reveals fatal flaws in security at the airport.
报告揭示了机场安全的致命缺陷。
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3. There is always a flaw in his character .
他的性格上有一丝缺点。
- flaw (n.) early 14c., "a flake" (of snow), also in Middle English "a spark of fire; a splinter," from Old Norse flaga "stone slab, layer of stone" (see flag (n.2)), perhaps used here in an extended sense. Old English had floh stanes, but the Middle English form suggests a Scandinavian origin. "The close resemblance in sense between flaw and flake is noteworthy" [OED]. Sense of "defect, fault" first recorded 1580s, first of character, later (c. 1600) of material things; probably via notion of a "fragment" broken off.
- flaw (v.) "cause a flaw or defect in," early 15c. (implied in flawed); see flaw (n.). Related: Flawing.
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