一、详细释义:
adj.
虚弱的,微弱的,无力的
例句:
He bleated out a feeble excuse.
他以微弱的声音作无力的辩解。
例句:
An old or sick person is often feeble.
老人或病人往往很虚弱。
软弱的,懦弱的,薄弱的
例句:
He said that the Government had been feeble.
他说政府很懦弱。
例句:
This is a particularly feeble argument.
这个论点尤其薄弱。
二、词义辨析:
weak,feeble,frail,fragile
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。
三、参考例句:
She is feeble from sickness.
她因为生病而变得虚弱。
He bleated out a feeble excuse.
他以微弱的声音作无力的辩解。
A feeble attempt is liable to fail.
浅尝辄止多半是要失败的。
This is a particularly feeble argument.
这个论点尤其薄弱。
Grandmother has been getting feeble lately.
近来祖母愈益衰弱了。
This was his fatal defect. He was of feeble will.
这是他致命的弱点,他意志薄弱。
She was too feeble to do her own shopping.
她身体虚弱到无法自己去购物。
His feeble excuses soon tailed off into silence.
他的借口站不住脚,他很快就不做声了。
He is a man with a feeble personality.
他是一个意志薄弱的人。
He is just a feeble James Dean wannabe.
他只是一个詹姆斯·迪安的拙劣模仿者。