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

• 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。
• Human reason is a fallible guide.
  人的理智会给人错误的指引。
• 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。
• He thinks because all our knowledge comes from experience, it's inherently fallible.
  他认为，既然所有的知识来自经验，那么这些知识本质上是很容易出错的。
• All believers, including the clergy, are fallible human beings who are prone to all types of sin.
  所有的信徒，包括神职人员，都是可能会犯各种类型的罪的普通人类。
• 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。
• "False start, ben Johnson jumps the gun." Human beings are only fallible.
  起跑犯规，本·约翰逊抢跑。人类本身易犯错误。
• Everyone is fallible to some degree.
  在某种程度上说每个人都难免犯错误。
• So foolish was the best choice, there is no choice most not fallible method.
  那么装傻就是最好的选择，这是没选择时最不易犯错的方法。
• Human beings, by our very nature, are fallible.
  人，因我们最原始的本质，都是会犯错的。