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

• 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。
• 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？
• But enough of the car's little foibles.
  不过，车的小缺点也说够了。
• 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。
• Investors, however, have become a lot more familiar with the foibles of Hong Kong's business elites, thanks to the efforts of one man.
  然而，由于一个人的努力，投资者对于香港商业精英的这些小缺点更加熟知。
• 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。
• He was to the end an immensely human figure who loved life and laughter and was subject to the same weaknesses and foibles as the rest of us.
  归根结底，他是极富有人情味的人，热爱生活和欢笑，但也拥有与其他人一样的弱点和缺陷。
• The ability to laugh at your foibles not only makes you happier as a person, it makes you more powerful, more influential and more attractive to others.
  自嘲自己的怪癖不仅会让你成为一个更幸福的人，而且使你更有力量，更有影响力，也更有魅力。
• 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 Trollope found favour with the reading public, who enjoyed the meticulous detail in his descriptions and the colourful way he brought the foibles of English society to life.
  他们欣赏他描写的深刻细致，把英国社会种种瑕疵描绘得栩栩如生。