fallible

英 [ˈfæləbl]

美 [ˈfæləbl]

adj.  会犯错误的

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BNC.21514 / COCA.24585

牛津词典

adj.

• 会犯错误的
  able to make mistakes or be wrong
  1. Memory is selective and fallible.
     记忆有选择性而且会出错。
  2. All human beings are fallible.
     人人都难免犯错误。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 可能出错的;会犯错的
  If you say that someone or something isfallible, you mean that they are not perfect and are likely to make mistakes or to fail in what they are doing.
  1. They are only human and all too fallible...
     他们只不过是普通人，太容易犯错误了。
  2. The system has proved fallible time after time...
     时间一次又一次证明,这个系统是会出错的。
  3. Human reason is a fallible guide.
     人的理智会给人错误的指引。

英英释义

adj

• likely to fail or make errors
  1. everyone is fallible to some degree
• wanting in moral strength, courage, or will
  1. I'm only a fallible human
  2. frail humanity
  Synonym:frailimperfectweak

双语例句

• Human beings, by our very nature, are fallible.
  人，因我们最原始的本质，都是会犯错的。
• Can a computer be programmed to be cunning yet fallible?
  一台计算机能被设定的既狡猾又易犯错误吗？
• A story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals.
  它不是一部十全十美的民族发展史，但它是一部在伟大和永恒理想指导下几代人团结奋斗的历史。
• The tax revenue data, while not beyond reproach, is less likely to be distorted as it is counted as the funds flow into the exchequer, not by more fallible survey techniques.
  税收数据虽然也遭到了人们的责问，但它失真的可能性较低因为它是依据流入国库的资金流计算得出的，而不是基于更易出现错误的调查技巧。
• These are recollections; like all memories, they may be fallible at the margins.
  这些都是回忆；像所有的回忆一样，一些细节性的东西或许不可靠。
• The more fallible a politician seems to be, the more honest people think he is.
  一个政治家看上去越易犯错，人民就越认为他诚实。
• These results show just how hard it is to effectively interview, and how fallible we can be when making interview judgments.
  这些结果显示了有效面试的难度有多大，在对面试者做判断时我们有多容易犯错。
• The indubitable fact that our perception of material objects is fallible does not entail that it is inferential.
  我们对于物质事物的知觉难免有错这一不容置疑的事实并不导出我们的知觉是推论出来的。
• Were the verdict unanimous, it would still be imperfect and fallible, if it did not receive the papal approbation.
  被判决一致，它将仍然是不完善的和犯错误，如果没有得到教皇的赞许。
• Politicians seem to be more fallible than the average run of mankind.
  政客们似乎比平常人更容易犯错误。