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

• That doesn't mean that big thoughts always come with cluttered physical offices, but it does mean that we're all going to have to accommodate each other's foibles.
  这并不意味着伟大的思想常常来源于杂乱的办公室。但是却意味着我们将不得不学会适应他人的缺点。
• He explores the ins and outs of his opponents so that he knows their foibles and attacks those weaknesses by involving his entire team.
  他对敌人一五一十的探索，使得他知道他们的弱点，进而打到这些弱点上来击垮他们整支球队。
• 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。
• Brown was fascinated by people's quirks and foibles.
  布朗对人们的种种怪癖十分着迷。
• You have to get used to other people's quirks and foibles.
  你得习惯别人的怪癖及缺点。
• Can this failure be put down to his peculiar personality and foibles?
  这次失败是否可以归因于他那特殊的个性与性格弱点？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）
• 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。