frail
frail 英 [freɪl] 美 [frel]
adj. 脆弱的；虚弱的 n. 灯心草篓；少妇；少女
名词复数:frails 比较级:frailer 最高级:frailest
- Something that is delicate and fragile can be described as frail. Grandma's favorite vase is probably too frail to use for football practice; some of us have learned that the hard way.
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- adj. 脆弱的；虚弱的
- n. 灯心草篓；少妇；少女
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1. Yet there he was, surrounded by frail patients at least four decades older.
但是他现在躺在那里，周围都是比他老四十岁的虚弱的病人。
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2. I suppose one thing that made you like him was that he was so small and frail; he aroused your instincts of protection.
我想，人们喜欢他还有一个原因，那就是他非常瘦小、脆弱，容易引起人们的恻隐之心。
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3. If only for a moment, Satan suddenly seems old and frail.
如果只是一瞬间，撒旦突然看起来又老又脆弱。
- frail (adj.) mid-14c., "morally weak," from Old French fraile, frele "weak, frail, sickly, infirm" (12c., Modern French frêle), from Latin fragilis "easily broken" (from PIE root *bhreg- "to break"). It is the Frenchified form of fragile. Sense of "easily destroyed, liable to break" in English is from late 14c. The U.S. slang noun meaning "a woman" is attested from 1908; perhaps with awareness of Shakespeare's "Frailty, thy name is woman."
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