一、詳細釋義:


adj.

虛弱的,微弱的,無力的


例句:

He bleated out a feeble excuse.

他以微弱的聲音作無力的辯解。


例句:

An old or sick person is often feeble.

老人或病人往往很虛弱。


軟弱的,懦弱的,薄弱的


例句:

He said that the Government had been feeble.

他說政府很懦弱。


例句:

This is a particularly feeble argument.

這個論點尤其薄弱。


二、詞義辨析:


weak,feeble,frail,fragile

這些形容詞均有“虛弱的,乏力的”之意。 weak普通用詞,指缺乏應(yīng)有的力量,可用于身體、意志或精神。 feeble指身體衰弱無力,精力幾乎耗盡,含令人憐憫的意味。 frail多指因經(jīng)常生病而身體纖弱。 fragile可與frail換用,但語氣強,側(cè)重脆弱,指人容易生病,指物容易破碎。


三、參考例句:


She is feeble from sickness.

她因為生病而變得虛弱。


He bleated out a feeble excuse.

他以微弱的聲音作無力的辯解。


A feeble attempt is liable to fail.

淺嘗輒止多半是要失敗的。


This is a particularly feeble argument.

這個論點尤其薄弱。


Grandmother has been getting feeble lately.

近來祖母愈益衰弱了。


This was his fatal defect. He was of feeble will.

這是他致命的弱點,他意志薄弱。


She was too feeble to do her own shopping.

她身體虛弱到無法自己去購物。


His feeble excuses soon tailed off into silence.

他的借口站不住腳,他很快就不做聲了。


He is a man with a feeble personality.

他是一個意志薄弱的人。


He is just a feeble James Dean wannabe.

他只是一個詹姆斯·迪安的拙劣模仿者。