foible
foible 英 [ˈfɔɪbl] 美 [ˈfɔɪbəl]
n. 弱点；小缺点；癖好
名词复数:foibles
- If you repeat foible out loud enough times, it sounds so funny that you can laugh at it and maybe remember to laugh at the odd and distinctive weaknesses of others — the foible or two or a hundred that we all have.
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- n. 弱点；小缺点；癖好
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1. It is a big foible of all the people.
这是一个全体人民的大怪癖。
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2. Today, however, the much-maligned human foible is being looked at in a different light.
然而今天，人们却从一个不同的角度来看待这个万人怨的人类弱点。
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3. Sometimes a given page presented me with the challenge of deciding which design foible to point out.
有时，一个给定页面交给我，要我指出设计的毛病来是一个挑战。
- foible (n.) 1640s, "weak point of a sword blade" (contrasted to forte), from French foible "a weak point, a weakness, failing," from noun use of Old French adjective feble "feeble" (see feeble). The spelling borrowed in English is obsolete in modern French, which uses faible. Extended sense of "weak point of character" is first recorded 1670s. Related: Foibles.
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