weakling是什么意思
- 英式英标[\'wiklɪŋ]
- 美式音标[\'wiːklɪŋ]
英文词源
- weakling (n.)
- 1520s, coined by Tyndale from weak (adj.) + -ling as a loan-translation of Luther's Weichling "effeminate man" (from German weich "soft") in I Cor. vi.9, where the Greek is malakoi, from malakos "soft, soft to the touch," "Like the Lat. mollis, metaph. and in a bad sense: effeminate, of a catamite, a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness" ["Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament"].
实用例句
- 1. I'm a useless weakling, and I can't stand excitement.
- 我没有胆量去承受那激动, 我还是希望我能不见着他.来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
- 2. What a weakling, how boring!
- 就这么稀松没劲 呀 !来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
- 3. The author characterizes the central figure as a weakling.
- 作者把书中的中心人物描绘成一个懦弱的人.来自辞典例句
- 4. The governor in Algeria, Chatel, was a weakling.
- 阿尔及利亚省长卓脱尔是个懦弱者.来自辞典例句
- 5. You are a miserable weakling.
- 你是一个可怜的弱者.来自辞典例句
