Weakness

(noun.) the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain; 'his weakness increased as he became older'; 'the weakness of the span was overlooked until it collapsed'.

(noun.) a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you; 'he has a weakness for chocolate'.

(noun.) the condition of being financially weak; 'the weakness of the dollar against the yen'.

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• Against artillery of the present day the land forts and walls would prove elements of weakness rather than strength. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I had always felt my weakness, in comparison with her constancy and fortitude; and now I felt it more and more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It is the Rock of Ages I ask you to lean on: do not doubt but it will bear the weight of your human weakness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The book treats of the weakness of human kind, and is in little esteem, except among the women and the vulgar. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• I could weep in the exquisite felicity of my heart and be as happy in my weakness as ever I had been in my strength. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The want of them, on some occasions, may even be a proof of weakness and imbecillity. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow,--a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• If I betray weakness, you will know how to excuse me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• My uncle will be full of horror, weakness, precipitation; and that is the only expedient which will suggest itself to him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Lydgate's anger rose: he was prepared to be indulgent towards feminine weakness, but not towards feminine dictation. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Its weakness is the ease with which natural in the sense of normal is confused with the physical. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He lives at Pentonwil when he's at home,' observed the driver coolly, 'but we seldom takes him home, on account of his weakness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I had no right to hear them, no right to answer them--they were the words that banished me, in the name of her sacred weakness, from the room. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I am only in great misery at what I have done, and that, with the weakness, makes me seem mad. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Sir John had his share--perhaps rather a large share--of the more harmless and amiable of the weaknesses incidental to humanity. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• One of her weaknesses was a desire to move in 'our best society', without being quite sure what the best really was. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It's the fashionable way; and fashion and whiskers have been my weaknesses, and I don't care who knows it, says Mr. Jobling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Her duty is at his side; and luckily she seems always to have been blind to his private weaknesses. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• But my husband has his weaknesses, and he is so weak as to relent towards this Doctor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• If I had not been too old for the amiable weaknesses of youth, I believe I should have blushed at the notion of facing him myself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• As a general rule, Edison does not get genuinely angry at mistakes and other human weaknesses of his subordinates; at best he merely simulates anger. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• And priestly government had its own weaknesses as well as its peculiar deep-rooted strength. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You charm me, Mortimer, with your reading of my weaknesses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I have many weaknesses, but none greater. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• They take advantage of popular weaknesses. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• They are great weaknesses--Damme, sir, they are great. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I have suppressed none of my many weaknesses on that subject, but have written them as faithfully as my memory has recalled them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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