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

• Infirmity often comes with old age.
  虚弱常随年老而来。
• The old woman was suffering from age and infirmity.
  那个老妇人受年老体弱之苦。
• 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。
• 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。
• Retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity.
  由于年龄或缺点而引退或不合格。
• Bad temper is his worst infirmity. To find fault; criticize someone or something.
  坏脾气是他最大的弱点。
• What right had infirmity like his to burden itself with crime?
  象他这样一个柔弱的人如何承受得起罪恶的重负呢？
• That the consumer is not reasonably able to protect his or her interests because of physical infirmity, ignorance, illiteracy, inability to understand the language of an agreement or similar factors.
  消费者因其身体疾病，无知，文盲，无法理解合同条款的语言等相似原因无法保护其自身利益。
• I at of, I can't let again your tears get a drenching that slice of lands of your foot, I also can't let again your infirmity have no the dependent on shoulder of!
  我在的，我不会再让你的眼泪淋湿你脚下的那片土地，我也不会再让你的虚弱没有依靠的肩膀的！
• 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。