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

• Among the hurdles that must be overcome are the association of hearing loss with increasing age and infirmity and the psychological blow to one's self-esteem that this acknowledgment may entail.
  在这些困难当中，我们必须克服的是：听力损失与年纪增长、体质虚弱相关，还有可能必须承认精神上吹鼓的自尊。
• I see, I see danger* Infirmity and disease.
  我预见危险、虚弱和疾病。
• We all fear disability of infirmity.
  我们都害怕伤残或体弱。
• And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
  耶稣看见，便叫过他来，对他说，女人，你脱离这病了。
• Retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity.
  由于年龄或缺点而引退或不合格。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• And nor is it "merely the absence of disease or infirmity".
  也不是仅仅的不得病，不虚弱。