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wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings;"I"m only a fallible human"
"frail humanity"

easily broken or damaged or destroyed;"a kite too delicate to fly safely"
"fragile porcelain plates"
"fragile old bones"
"a frail craft"

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中英词源

frail 易碎的

缩写自拉丁语fragilis, 易碎的，词源同fragile.

frail (adj.): mid-14c., "morally weak," from Old French fraile, frele "weak, frail, sickly, infirm" (12c., Modern French frêle), from Latin fragilis "easily broken" (see fragility). 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."

词态变化

比较级 frailer;
最高级 frailest;

权威造句

1. The frail craft rocked as he clambered in.: 他爬进来的时候，那件易碎的工艺品摇晃起来。

2. Mother was becoming too frail to live alone.: 母亲已逐渐衰弱到无法独居。

3. The boy was frail and never ganged with his fellows at school.: 这个男孩身体虚弱,从不和同学们一起玩.

4. My grandmother was becoming more and more sad and frail as the years went by.: 随着时间的流逝，我的祖母变得日益伤感和虚弱。

5. She lay in bed looking particularly frail.: 她躺在床上，看上去特别虚弱。

近反义词

frail type 瘦体型

相似短语

frail type 瘦体型

maintain railways 养路

brain drain n.智囊流失,人才外流

detail by detail 逐一地

against the grain 反方向；违背意愿，使反感，使不快

air raid n. 空袭

rail against 责骂,挑剔,抱怨

braided drainage 辫状水系

maintain oneself 自立,坚持己见

prevail against 胜过,战胜

单词分析

这些形容词都含有“易碎的”之意。
brittle指没有弹性或伸缩性的脆性材料，暗示受压或被扭曲时易碎。
fragile除指易碎外，还指人身体虚弱，动辄就得病。
frail多指人体虚弱，也指某物不耐用，易碎易损。这些形容词均有“虚弱的，乏力的”之意。
weak普通用词，指缺乏应有的力量，可用于身体、意志或精神。
feeble指身体衰弱无力，精力几乎耗尽，含令人怜悯的意味。
frail多指因经常生病而身体纤弱。
fragile可与frail换用，但语气强，侧重脆弱，指人容易生病，指物容易破碎。

记忆方法

1. flail, frail: 打谷子用扁担，l 是扁担、连盖，r像一朵花，花脆弱.
2. frail (源自fragile，g 被省略)脆弱，虚弱的。
3. ail => frail.
4. fr- + ail => frail.

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