foibles

英 [ˈfɔɪblz]

美 [ˈfɔɪbəlz]

n. (性格上无伤大雅的)怪癖，弱点，小缺点
foible的复数

柯林斯词典

N-COUNT 小怪癖;(性格上无伤大雅的)缺点
Afoibleis a habit or characteristic that someone has which is considered rather strange, foolish, or bad but which is also considered unimportant.
1. ...human foibles and weaknesses.
  人类的缺点和弱点

双语例句

But enough of the car's little foibles.
不过，车的小缺点也说够了。
This made basic sense as financial engineering& an unsentimental effort to work around risks, selection biases, moral hazards and human foibles that could lead to disaster.
这样做大致合乎财务工程的道理，回避了风险、选择偏见、道德风险、人性弱点等问题。
The ability to laugh at your foibles not only makes you happier as a person, it makes you more powerful, more influential and more attractive to others.
自嘲自己的怪癖不仅会让你成为一个更幸福的人，而且使你更有力量，更有影响力，也更有魅力。
Today they recognize that human foibles, biases and our hunter-gatherer origins can often be critical factors.
现在，他们认识到，人性的缺点、偏见和打猎-采摘的起源，这些因素通常也很关键。
Further, if you need to appear the expert and won't admit your flaws, foibles or 'gaps, you'll never get the help you need to make life change.
进一步说，如果你需要表现得像专家，不承认自己的缺点、弱点或者缺陷，那么你就不能得到你要改变生活的帮助。
He would have been able to see his father's foibles, and he might have found the precept of absolute piety somewhat difficult to live up to.
他一定会看出他父亲的缺点，因此也许会觉得那种绝对孝敬父母的观念有点不易实行。
That doesn't mean that big thoughts always come with cluttered physical offices, but it does mean that we're all going to have to accommodate each other's foibles.
这并不意味着伟大的思想常常来源于杂乱的办公室。但是却意味着我们将不得不学会适应他人的缺点。
Arrive home at a reasonable hour; commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius; unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated.
在适当的时间回家；天才也有缺点是常识；没受过教育但有基本常识的乡下人能够解决那些困扰渊博的人的问题。
Humor fosters acceptance of our humanness and our foibles.
幽默会培养我们人性和弱点上的接受程度。
What interests me is not just the endless weakness of human nature but how technology now allows these foibles to be indulged at work.
令我感兴趣的，不仅是人性中无穷无尽的弱点，还有科技让人们在工作中纵容这些弱点的程度。