| 单词 | weak side |
| 释义 | > as lemmasweak side d. weak side [compare French côté faible] . (a) Of a fortified place: A side defectively fortified or unsound in its defences. (b) figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > weak point weak side1668 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > weakness of character or will unmighteOE frailnessa1300 infirmityc1384 debility1474 brittleness1493 brucklenessc1500 weak side1668 weakness1748 washiness1763 feebleness1809–10 enervation1849 weak-mindedness1854 feet of clay1859 will-lessness1865 bonelessness1869 molluscousness1870 limpness1873 backbonelessness1882 invertebracy1882 weak-kneedness1882 invertebrateness1884 spinelessness1920 gutlessness1936 (a) (b)1680 W. Temple Surv. Constit. of Empire in Miscellanea 13 Their Application..to trade, has much increast their Shipping and Seamen (which they found to be their weak-side in their last attempts).1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccxxx. 288 This Dog here would perhaps have Fought for his Master in any Other Case..: But the Love of Mutton was his Weak side.1713 J. Addison Cato i. i To quell the tyrant Love, and guard thy heart On this weak side, where most our nature fails.a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) vii. 144 Satan soon after got in upon my weak side.1780 Mirror No. 92 My friend..is a little inclined to take things on their weak side.1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xi. v. 284 He spared you the trouble of finding out the weak side of that prelate and his principal officers, by discovering their different characters to you.1668 J. Dryden Secret-love 1st Prol. sig. a3 Plays are like Towns, which howe're fortifi'd By Engineers, have still some weaker side, By the o'reseen Defendant unespy'd. < as lemmas |
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