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

• 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。
• 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。
• Human memory being as fallible as it is.
  人的记忆本身可能有差错。
• 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。
• 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。
• None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.
  没有人像那些坚信自己一定正确的人那样容易犯错误。
• Everyone is fallible to some degree.
  在某种程度上说每个人都难免犯错误。
• 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。
• People began to realize that their leaders were not "heavenly chosen" but merely fallible human beings just like themselves.
  人们开始意识到他们的领袖并非是“神授”的，而只是一些也有可能失误的凡夫俗子，与他们自己毫无二致。
• 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？