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

• 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。
• 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。
• Lk. 13:11 And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent double and could not stand erect at all.
  路十三11看哪，有一个女人，被病弱的灵附著，已经十八年了，腰弯得一点都直不起来。
• His own infirmity was not the result of the English climate.
  他的虚弱体质不是英国气候造成的。
• Retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity.
  由于年龄或缺点而引退或不合格。
• The old woman was suffering from age and infirmity.
  那个老妇人受年老体弱之苦。
• Bad temper is his worst infirmity. To find fault; criticize someone or something.
  坏脾气是他最大的弱点。
• And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
  在那里有一个人，病了三十八年。
• And nor is it "merely the absence of disease or infirmity".
  也不是仅仅的不得病，不虚弱。
• Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
  好能同情无知和迷途的人，因为他自己也为弱点所纠缠。