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单词只背一遍0077｜雅思核心单词feeble

考研英语外刊阅读 · 公众号 · · 2021-03-11 18:51

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feeble

英 [ˈfiːbl] 美 [ˈfiːbl]

英汉释义

adj. 微弱的，无力的；虚弱的；薄弱的

[ 比较级 feebler 最高级 feeblest ]

英英释义

1. ADJ If you describe someone or something as feeble, you mean that they are weak. 虚弱的

2. feebly ADV 虚弱地 [ADV with v]

3. ADJ If you describe something that someone says as feeble, you mean that it is not very good or convincing. 不可信的

4. feebly ADV 薄弱地 [ADV with v]

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记忆方法

1. 非常薄的。
2. =vulnerable(依然很薄)。

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【中文词源】：

来自拉丁语flebilis的拼写异化词，呻吟，哭叫，词源同bleat, blare.

【英语词源】：

feeble: [12] Semantically, feeble was originally a close relative of deplorable and lamentable, but over the centuries it has diverged markedly from them. Its ultimate source was Latin flēbilis, a derivative of the verb flēre ‘weep’. In classical times this meant literally ‘worthy of being cried over, lamentable’, but later it came to signify ‘weak’. It passed in this sense into Old French as fleible, which subsequently became feible or feble (source of English feeble), and later still foible (whence English foible [17]) and faible (the modern French form).
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