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 memory being as fallible as it is.
人的记忆本身可能有差错。
The inevitable result is a call for more automation to take fallible humans out of the picture entirely.
不可避免的结果是，进一步提高自动化程度、让容易犯错的人类彻底出局，成为人们的呼声。
Doctors are also fallible, and it is understandable that they would not want to make the final decision about when death should occur.
医生也是容易犯错误的。他们在何时死亡的问题上不愿做最后决定也是可以理解的。
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。
This just proves that everybody is fallible.
这证明了每个人都难免犯错。
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。
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。
Now, I do realize that physicians are fallible human beings.
现在，我也知道医生是会犯错误的人。
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。
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。