infirmity

英 [ɪnˈfɜːməti]

美 [ɪnˈfɜːrməti]

n.  (长期的)体弱，生病

复数：infirmities　

TOEFLIELTSTEM8医学

BNC.20636 / COCA.22525

牛津词典

noun

• （长期的）体弱，生病
  weakness or illness over a long period
  1. We all fear disability or infirmity.
     我们都害怕伤残或体弱。
  2. the infirmities of old age
     老年体弱

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (常指因年迈而)体弱的,虚弱的
  A person who isinfirmis weak or ill, and usually old.
  1. ...her aging, infirm husband.
     她年迈体弱的丈夫
  2. The infirmare people who are infirm.
     年迈体弱者
  3. We are here to protect and assist the weak and infirm.
     我们来这里保护、帮助年迈体弱者。

英英释义

noun

• the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
  Synonym:frailtydebilityfeeblenessfrailnessvaletudinarianism

双语例句

• If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my infirmity.
  若必须夸耀，我就要夸耀我软弱的事。
• Bad temper is his worst infirmity. To find fault; criticize someone or something.
  坏脾气是他最大的弱点。
• The infirmity that felling is so by oneself with need to be depended on!
  感觉自己是那么的虚弱和需要依靠！
• That the consumer is not reasonably able to protect his or her interests because of physical infirmity, ignorance, illiteracy, inability to understand the language of an agreement or similar factors.
  消费者因其身体疾病，无知，文盲，无法理解合同条款的语言等相似原因无法保护其自身利益。
• Rheumatism was an old infirmity in his family.
  风湿病是他家的宿疾。
• The state of being weak or feeble; infirmity.
  衰弱虚弱或无力的状态；体弱。
• We all fear disability of infirmity.
  我们都害怕伤残或体弱。
• Human infirmity iin moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage;
  我把人在调节和控制情感上的软弱无力成为奴役。
• Woman's prescriptive infirmity had stalked into the sunlight, which had clothed it in the freshness of an originality.
  女人的那种习惯成自然的弱点全然暴露在光天化日之下，而阳光又给它披上了一层别具一格的清新色彩。
• Perhaps she could be what she had dreamed of being, despite her condition and her infirmity, if she only had the courage to defy convention and fly in the face of gossip.
  如果她只要有勇气挑战世俗，避开闲话，不管她的情况和她的虚弱，也许，她会实现她的梦想。