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小词详解 | frail
frail 英 [freɪl] 美 [freɪl]
Disputes that might have been swept into a new trade round have fallen to the WTO’s dispute-resolution machinery, which is too slow and too frail to carry the burden.
一些争端本可能会进入新一轮贸易谈判,然而世贸组织的争端解决机制太过缓慢和脆弱,无法承担此重负。
——《经济学人》I was once taking care of a frail, older patient who came to the hospital feeling very short of breath. It wasn't immediately clear why, but her breathing was getting worse.
我曾经护理过一位年老体弱的病人,她来到医院时感到呼吸急促。当时未能立即查明病因,而她的呼吸问题却越来越严重。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] (指人)虚弱和纤弱的
他那辆不坚实的车在弯道处失去控制,一头扎下堤岸。
His frail car went out of control on a bend and plummeted down an embankment.
她那睿智的老祖母已逐渐衰弱到无法独居。
Her sage old grandmother was becoming too frail to live alone.
Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all the color from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiring energy.
看来外表娇弱,骨骼纤秀,皮肤白皙得好像那火焰般的头发把她的脸上的全部血色都吸收到这炫亮的一丛里来了,可是她却有着充沛的精神和不倦的体力。
feeble: lacking physical strength, especially as a result of age or illness fragile: (of a person) not strong or sturdy; delicate and vulnerable infirm: not physically or mentally strong, especially through age or illness