单词	frailty
释义	frailtyfrail‧ty /ˈfreɪlti/ noun (plural frailties) Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Mr. Zimmer is still alert, despite his age and the frailty of his body. The recent riots are evidence of the frailty of the peace agreement. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Despite his frailty, however, he prevailed on them to let him journey to Fort Kaskaskia in southern Illinois. Each of these domestic vulnerabilities translates into a fragile, retrospective foreign policy that, in turn, fuels local frailties. Her humor always made us, in some sense, realize the frailty of our human life. It is harder to defeat the chronic low productivity of the state farms, and the frailties of the distribution chain. Most important is the factor of human frailty. Nevertheless, even allowing for all the frailties of palaeontologists, there still remains a remarkable picture of palaeontological persistence. Since comedy ridicules the frailties of man, it professes a moral aim. Those glimpses express our hopes and dreams, our failures and frailty. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► human frailties  human frailties COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► human · Faith in the mouse as model for human frailties is extraordinarily strong among scientists.· Reagan saw the depth of human frailty but appealed to the better angels of our nature.· Ahead of him, Peng Yu-wei strode purposefully up the path, his long legs showing no sign of human frailty.· The more people see them the more they see the human frailties.· In contrast, policies that recognise human frailty and try to ameliorate it seem to succeed.· For sheer bravado, hard-nosed business sense and a cunning understanding of human frailty, Agnes deserves admiration.· As a further guard against human frailty the hardener, and occasionally the glue, were dyed characteristic colours. 1[uncountable] the lack of strength or health SYN  weaknessfrailty of the frailty of her thin body2[countable, uncountable] something bad or weak in your character SYN  weakness:  human frailties
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