foibles

英 [ˈfɔɪblz] 美 [ˈfɔɪbəlz]

n.  (性格上无伤大雅的)怪癖，弱点，小缺点
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  1. N-COUNT 小怪癖;(性格上无伤大雅的)缺点
    A foible is a habit or characteristic that someone has which is considered rather strange, foolish, or bad but which is also considered unimportant.
    1. ...human foibles and weaknesses.
      人类的缺点和弱点
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双语例句

  1. Brown was fascinated by people's quirks and foibles.
    布朗对人们的种种怪癖十分着迷。
  2. He finds human foibles endearing, but is unforgiving of pretension.
    他觉得人性的弱点很可爱，但不能容忍惺惺作态。
  3. We enjoy talking with other moms about them and their foibles.
    我们喜欢和其他的妈妈聊天，聊各自的优缺点。
  4. The ability to laugh at your foibles not only makes you happier as a person, it makes you more powerful, more influential and more attractive to others.
    自嘲自己的怪癖不仅会让你成为一个更幸福的人，而且使你更有力量，更有影响力，也更有魅力。
  5. Further, if you need to appear the expert and won't admit your flaws, foibles or 'gaps, you'll never get the help you need to make life change.
    进一步说，如果你需要表现得像专家，不承认自己的缺点、弱点或者缺陷，那么你就不能得到你要改变生活的帮助。
  6. Her boyfriend foibles often famously make it into her songs, including We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, but Swift says contrary to what some people may think, she's not sure she's ever been in love.
    她男朋友的小缺点往往会成名地进入她的歌曲，包括《我们再也不会在一起了》，但与人们认为的相反的是斯威夫特说她不确定她曾经爱过。
  7. He was to the end an immensely human figure who loved life and laughter and was subject to the same weaknesses and foibles as the rest of us.
    归根结底，他是极富有人情味的人，热爱生活和欢笑，但也拥有与其他人一样的弱点和缺陷。
  8. That doesn't mean that big thoughts always come with cluttered physical offices, but it does mean that we're all going to have to accommodate each other's foibles.
    这并不意味着伟大的思想常常来源于杂乱的办公室。但是却意味着我们将不得不学会适应他人的缺点。
  9. Can this failure be put down to his peculiar personality and foibles?
    这次失败是否可以归因于他那特殊的个性与性格弱点？
  10. This made basic sense as financial engineering& an unsentimental effort to work around risks, selection biases, moral hazards and human foibles that could lead to disaster.
    这样做大致合乎财务工程的道理，回避了风险、选择偏见、道德风险、人性弱点等问题。
  11. Today they recognize that human foibles, biases and our hunter-gatherer origins can often be critical factors.
    现在，他们认识到，人性的缺点、偏见和打猎-采摘的起源，这些因素通常也很关键。
  12. But I will applaud the attempt to overcome human foibles.
    但我会为战胜人性弱点而作出的努力喝彩。
  13. Humor fosters acceptance of our humanness and our foibles.
    幽默会培养我们人性和弱点上的接受程度。
  14. There many humorous allusions to human foibles in the drama.
    捐籽多处阅默地提到人类的弱点。
  15. Indeed, his emphasis on the foibles of the entrepreneur, the unpredictability of outcomes and the power of evolutionary processes directly contrasts with the high rationalism that modern business schools teach or consultants promote.
    事实上，他对创业精神的缺陷、结果的不可预测性和演变过程的力量等因素的强调，直接与现代商学院所教授的、或咨询公司所推动的高度理性主义相冲突。
  16. Her room was a study in the foibles of an eager and ambitious mind.
    从她的房间可以看出一个热忠的，野心勃勃人的弱点。
  17. But enough of the car's little foibles.
    不过，车的小缺点也说够了。
  18. He would have been able to see his father's foibles, and he might have found the precept of absolute piety somewhat difficult to live up to.
    他一定会看出他父亲的缺点，因此也许会觉得那种绝对孝敬父母的观念有点不易实行。
  19. What interests me is not just the endless weakness of human nature but how technology now allows these foibles to be indulged at work.
    令我感兴趣的，不仅是人性中无穷无尽的弱点，还有科技让人们在工作中纵容这些弱点的程度。
  20. Will to me, betraying the age means exposing its conceits, its foibles, its phony moral certitudes.
    对我而言，背叛时代就意味着揭露它的狂妄、它的弱点、它枯萎的道德信念。
  21. He explores the ins and outs of his opponents so that he knows their foibles and attacks those weaknesses by involving his entire team.
    他对敌人一五一十的探索，使得他知道他们的弱点，进而打到这些弱点上来击垮他们整支球队。
  22. Arrive home at a reasonable hour; commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius; unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated.
    在适当的时间回家；天才也有缺点是常识；没受过教育但有基本常识的乡下人能够解决那些困扰渊博的人的问题。
  23. But Trollope found favour with the reading public, who enjoyed the meticulous detail in his descriptions and the colourful way he brought the foibles of English society to life.
    他们欣赏他描写的深刻细致，把英国社会种种瑕疵描绘得栩栩如生。
  24. Commonsense scholarship on the foibles and oversights of a genius ( Times Literary Supplement)
    关于天才的缺点和失败的常识（时代文学增刊）
  25. You have to get used to other people's quirks and foibles.
    你得习惯别人的怪癖及缺点。
  26. But these foibles, real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant growth of a spirit so robust and wise, and which effaced its defeats with new triumphs.
    但这些明显和真实的怪癖，很快便淹没在他不断生长的旺盛和聪慧的精神，也以新的胜利抹去了自身的缺陷。
  27. Investors, however, have become a lot more familiar with the foibles of Hong Kong's business elites, thanks to the efforts of one man.
    然而，由于一个人的努力，投资者对于香港商业精英的这些小缺点更加熟知。
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