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 fragile ['frædʒəl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 易碎的, 脆的

[医] 脆弱的, 脆的

[经] 易碎的


  1. He's feeling a bit fragile after last night's party.
    他参加了昨晚的聚会之后，现在觉得有些虚弱。
  2. This glass plate is very fragile.
    这个玻璃盘子很容易碎。
  3. Human happiness is so fragile.
    人生幸福易逝。


fragile
[ adj ]
  1. easily broken or damaged or destroyed

    2. <adj.all>
    a kite too delicate to fly safely
    fragile porcelain plates
    fragile old bones
    a frail craft
  2. vulnerably delicate

    3. <adj.all>
    she has the fragile beauty of youth
  3. lacking substance or significance

    4. <adj.all>
    slight evidence
    a tenuous argument
    a thin plot
    a fragile claim to fame


Fragile \Frag"ile\, a. [L. fragilis, from frangere to break; cf.
F. fragile. See {Break}, v. t., and cf. {Frail}, a.]
Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.

The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile. --Bacon.

Syn: Brittle; infirm; weak; frail; frangible; slight. --
{Frag"ile*ly}, adv.

  1. The party is investigating leaflets issued by Liberal Democrats in the recent council by-election, won by the far right British National Party. 'Hope is a fragile thing,' Mr Ashdown said.
  2. Within the last month stocks held on the London Metals Exchange have finally started to fall. With 2.5m tonnes of metal still held in LME warehouses, though, the equilibrium looks fragile.
  3. But this is fragile and can shift.'
  4. We've successfully captured a number of accounts.' Demand for diesel engines has recovered in the UK and the US, but remains fragile in continental Europe.
  5. Yesterday's consumer credit data show the recovery is taking hold, but the balance of payments is too fragile to sustain consumer-led growth for long.
  6. Swarming around these fragile shares were short-sellers, the people who try to profit from stock-price declines.
  7. Though much improved, global business conditions and local investor confidence remain fragile.
  8. Yugoslavia's two most liberal republics hold elections Sunday whose results could jeopardize the country's fragile federation.
  9. Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland all struggle to replace state-run economies with free markets, but their reforms remain tentative and fragile.
  10. Our environment is a very fragile thing and I think that's something that we're very impressed by when we take photos and as we look out the window.
  11. The bonds of national cohesion in the republic are sufficiently fragile already.
  12. Yet surely the cure for fragile democracy is not less democracy. These populist movements in Eastern Europe are the fruition of last year's revolutions.
  13. As the fragile boat sank, the survivors put the helmsman's body on a makeshift raft and floated downstream to safety, past enemy positions.
  14. Romanians have achieved a fragile democracy a year after the bloody fall of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, but not the prosperity and calm they hoped it would bring.
  15. A fragile compromise worked out by supporters of the early primary depended on legislative approval of both the amendment and the main bill, but it fell apart just hours before the end of the 1990 legislative session.
  16. Across South America, the crushing burden of foreign debt piled up largely by military governments no longer in power is stifling economies, stirring unrest in the masses and threatening fragile democracies.
  17. Yet that confidence often seems fragile.
  18. The former nation's job market has become a Darwinian proving ground, a battle for survival in which people in the most fragile financial and social situations are the first to be fired.
  19. That effect started to wear off towards the end of the quarter and consumer spending has remained fragile. Many economists believe that such fragility is just a passing phase, to be ended by the improving labour market situation.
  20. If Nelson Mandela cannot carry his young urban constituents along with him in his pursuit of power, any settlement he signs will be a fragile affair. So far at least, the ANC leader's pragmatism is supported by Mothopeng and his colleagues.
  21. The attack violates a fragile cease-fire to which the Contras and the leftist Sandinista government agreed on March 23.
  22. It's fragile; it needs protection.
  23. "Forgive us, oh Lord, for thinking we are in control of our well-ordered lives _ for the events of the past few days have shown us how small, fragile and powerless we really are," she said.
  24. The United States would veto any such resolution, thus endangering its fragile anti-Iraq coalition with Arab states.
  25. One reason for optimism, he said, is the Conservation Reserve Program, which will idle 30 million or more acres a year through the mid-1990s under long-term agreements with farmers to protect fragile crop land.
  26. But such a move could throw into turmoil the vital but fragile local business structure, much of it run by foreigners with assests in black market kwanzas.
  27. "I would expect her jaw to be shattered," Plunkett said, observing that Lisa's jaw was small and fragile and she still had her baby teeth.
  28. "It's a fragile (supply-demand) balance, and prices could tumble back down to the mid-teens," he said.
  29. By several economic barometers, New Zealand's economy is staging a recovery, albeit a fragile one.
  30. Aboriginal communities have become increasingly militant. The pervasive influence of US television is weakening Canada's fragile indigenous culture.
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