foibles

英 [ˈfɔɪblz]

美 [ˈfɔɪbəlz]

n.  (性格上无伤大雅的)怪癖，弱点，小缺点
foible的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 小怪癖;(性格上无伤大雅的)缺点
  Afoibleis 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

双语例句

• 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。
• You have to get used to other people's quirks and foibles.
  你得习惯别人的怪癖及缺点。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。