foible

音标发音

• 英式音标 ['fɒɪb(ə)l]
• 美式音标 [ˈfɔɪ.bəl]
• 国际音标 ['fɔibl]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n.小缺点；小毛病

词根记忆

• 与feeble(adj.虚弱的，衰弱的)一起记

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• It is a big foible of all the people.
  这是一个全体人民的大怪癖。
• 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。
• 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。

权威例句

• Maybe her supporters should stop defending her every foible and help her with her education instead.
  FORBES: The Sad Defense of Sarah Palin's Botched History
• Will Petraeus be thought of, in time, as a hero guilty of no more than a distracting foible?
  NEWYORKER: General Principles
• Whenever a local foible or tradition grabbed his interest, such as the country's idiosyncratic waterway laws, he would research it exhaustively.
  ECONOMIST: Entrepreneurship in Shanghai: Mandarin mogul

词组短语

短语

• foible cocoon 绵茧
• foible e 剑身弱部;小缺点
• Dan Foible 主要角色
• Foible of liking suit -dress 女装癖

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a strange habit or characteristic that is seen as not important and not harming anyone

柯林斯英英字典

• A foible is a habit or characteristic that someone has which is considered rather strange, foolish, or bad but which is also considered unimportant.