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

• 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。
• Commonsense scholarship on the foibles and oversights of a genius ( Times Literary Supplement)
  关于天才的缺点和失败的常识（时代文学增刊）
• 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。
• He would have been able to see his father's foibles, and he might have found the precept of absolute piety somewhat difficult to live up to.
  他一定会看出他父亲的缺点，因此也许会觉得那种绝对孝敬父母的观念有点不易实行。
• Further, if you need to appear the expert and won't admit your flaws, foibles or 'gaps, you'll never get the help you need to make life change.
  进一步说，如果你需要表现得像专家，不承认自己的缺点、弱点或者缺陷，那么你就不能得到你要改变生活的帮助。
• But enough of the car's little foibles.
  不过，车的小缺点也说够了。
• This made basic sense as financial engineering& an unsentimental effort to work around risks, selection biases, moral hazards and human foibles that could lead to disaster.
  这样做大致合乎财务工程的道理，回避了风险、选择偏见、道德风险、人性弱点等问题。
• 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。
• 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 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。