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 fragility [frə'dʒɪlətɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 脆弱, 虚弱

[化] 易碎性

[医] 脆性, 脆弱


  1. They seemed to be celebrating with an isolated fragility.
    他们似乎是在一个尘世之外、无的世界中庆祝着。
  2. But many of the speakers warned of the fragility of the world order.
    ² 但是,很多发言人都警告说,世界秩序很脆弱。
  3. Those involved had to uncurl the" cigars" whose fragility was a conservator's nightmare.
    棘手的问题就是如何展开这些“雪茄”,手稿的脆弱性对于管理员是恶梦。


fragility
[ noun ]
  1. quality of being easily damaged or destroyed

  2. <noun.attribute>
  3. lack of physical strength

  4. <noun.attribute>


Fragility \Fra*gil"i*ty\, n. [L. fragilitas: cf. F.
fragilit['e]. Cf. {Frailty}.]
1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness;
frangibility. --Bacon.

2. Weakness; feebleness.

An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is
almost essential to it [beauty]. --Burke.

3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. [Obs.]

The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius.
--Holland.

  1. 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.
  2. In the event, the intervention misfired because it seemed to confirm market fears about the dollar's fragility.
  3. For three days the experts from a half-dozen Western countries depressed each other with talk of the frayed fragility of the Western alliance and marveled among themselves at the awesome abilities of Mr. Gorbachev.
  4. But it is also time to construct a physical monument and historical center to remind Americans of the power of the state and the fragility of our civil rights.
  5. The new democracies around the world are fragile, and inattention to their fragility and their needs may result in the end of freedom there.
  6. Given a new fragility in the ruling coalition between Mr. Kohl's party, the Conservative Christian Democratic Union, and Mr. Genscher's party, the slender Free Democrats, the dovish Mr. Genscher is particularly powerful this season.
  7. The pound's late fragility was exacerbated by sterling sales in New York by traders worried about the outlook for the UK economy.
  8. The fragility of his coalition has so far put this in doubt. Political uncertainty also clouds the picture for Canada, possibly the least worrisome of the three.
  9. These were denied, but they highlighted once again the fragility of the banks' relationship with many of their small business customers. The chief concern of small businesses has been the more restrictive attitude the banks have taken to lending.
  10. Even as Congress was struggling to nail down the final deal over the weekend, government data was emerging that showed the fragility of their house of cards.
  11. "Sunday's tragedy has brought home to each of us the fragility of life and made us recognize anew the limits to man's mastery of his world."
  12. In its small way, the fate of the classics at one of the nation's most lavishly funded universities casts a revealing light on both the fragility of the liberal arts and the mysteries of academic finance.
  13. The goal of their 4,000-mile journey is to conquer the world's last untamed frontier and call attention to the continent's environmental and political fragility.
  14. Suddenly, the credit-card furor has emerged as a vivid illustration of both the paralysis of Washington's economic policy-making and the fragility of the U.S. economy.
  15. Profits have an air of fragility about them, representing as they do the difference between what the company can wring out of its low budget passengers and what it must pay the contractors who run some of its coach services.
  16. There have been suggestions that the politicians have been trying to get him to soften his approach because of the fragility of the economy, for example by easing the pressure on power stations.
  17. Her death, and the three-week delay in announcing it, point out the fragility of China's political situation.
  18. No pat wisdoms are dispensed by Mikhalkov about inter-ethnic accord; no laboured exposition is offered about contrary lifestyles. Instead the film has a puffball tragicomic fragility.
  19. The market's 30% plunge in two days this week also seems to be symbolic, both of the fragility of that confidence and the vulnerability of Mexico's recovery to factors beyond the country's control.
  20. Moreover, the country's big stadiums, some built for the 1950 World Cup, are reportedly in disrepair, and the fragility of the Brazilian economy raised questions about whether needed refurbishing could be afforded.
  21. European traders did not seem impressed yesterday, however, and nearby prices for Brent crude slipped back below Dollars 18 a barrel. The agreement's fragility was signalled clearly by Mr Ali al-Baghli, the Kuwait oil minister.
  22. This helped to restore overseas confidence and stem a dangerous outflow of capital from Sweden, but it also underlined the fragility of the more open financial system within which the Nordic countries must operate.
  23. The lighting is subdued due to the fragility of the artifacts, some a century old.
  24. But it was the convening this month in Brasilia of the constituent assembly elected in November that highlighted his isolation and accentuated the fragility of his position.
  25. With losses of L479bn (Pounds 199m) and outstanding debts of L1,496bn in 1993, no-one disputes the financial fragility of the RAI.
  26. More than a century and a half later, the worst fears James Madison envisioned in the Federalist Papers about the fragility of a democracy without a sense of public virtue are becoming a reality, said Harvard Divinity School Dean Ronald F. Thiemann.
  27. Possibly this is a very clever device, designed to show the fragility and hit-or-miss nature of show business.
  28. The fragility of the French banking system, largely reflecting the precarious state of the Paris property market, will prove a further restraint.
  29. Despite the fragility of the economy and corporate sector, traders insist the equity market has a positive undertone, given the amount of available institutional liquidity and the market's relative cheapness.
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