feeble

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fee·ble /ˈfiːbəl/ adjectiveadj

1 WEAKextremely weak 非常虛弱的，無力的 OPP strong

His voice sounded feeble and far away.

他的聲音聽上去既無力又遙遠。

She was too feeble to leave her room.

她身體虛弱，無法走出自己的房間。

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2 EFFECTIVEnot very good or effective 蹩腳的；無效的，站不住腳的 SYN weak

a feeble excuse

牽強的借口

a rather feeble committee

一個相當軟弱的委員會

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feeble• Sales have gone up only by a feeble 0.1 percent.• He did not remember his sister at all, except as a tiny, feeble baby.• Reproaches, accusations, sadness - perhaps even feeble blows from feeble fists.• Such a feeble case should not have gone to court.• Compare the impact of the following feeble denouement with that of Oedipus who really was incestuous!• a feeble elderly woman in a wheelchair• My grandmother's very feeble now and needs someone at home full-time to look after her.• Nature sustains our feeble reason, and prevents it raving to this extent.• The smallest, feeblest stars, called M5 red dwarfs, have about 5 percent of the mass of our Sun.• His health was so feeble that he went to Florida and lived for six more years.• a feeble voice

Origin feeble

(1100-1200) Old French feble, from Latin flebilis “causing tears, weak”

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