feeble是什么意思_feeble怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

feeble: feeble: [12] Semantically, feeble was originally a close relative of deplorable and lamentable, but over the centuries it has diverged markedly from them. Its ultimate source was Latin flēbilis, a derivative of the verb flēre ‘weep’. In classical times this meant literally ‘worthy of being cried over, lamentable’, but later it came to signify ‘weak’. It passed in this sense into Old French as fleible, which subsequently became feible or feble (source of English feeble), and later still foible (whence English foible [17]) and faible (the modern French form).
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feeble (adj.): late 12c., "lacking strength or vigor" (physical, moral, or intellectual), from Old French feble "weak, feeble" (12c., Modern French faible), dissimilated from Latin flebilis "lamentable," literally "that is to be wept over," from flere "weep, cry, shed tears, lament," from PIE *bhle- "to howl" (see bleat (v.)). The first -l- was lost in Old French. The noun meaning "feeble person" is recorded from mid-14c.

词态变化

比较级 feebler;
最高级 feeblest;
副词 feebly;
名词 feebleness;

2. The Observer found the play "a feeble rehash of familiar Miller themes": 《观察家报》认为这部剧“是大家熟悉的米勒式主题的拙劣翻版”。

infirm

weak

feeble child 虚弱儿童

feeble current 弱电流

extremely feeble 极度虚弱

feeble shadow 微弱影象, 微弱阴影

feeble pulse 脉虚

feeble respiration 【医】微弱呼吸

feeble minded 低能的

feeble beam 弱束

feeble field 弱场

feeble and impalpable pulse 脉微欲绝

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。

1. 非常薄的。
2. =vulnerable(依然很薄)。