英[flɔː]美[flɔː]
记忆方法
词源记忆法
词源不详。可能来自 flake, 碎片。引申词义缺陷，缺点。
noun(名词)verb(动词)
双解例句
noun(名词)verb(动词)
小知识
A flaw can be a sign of weakness or defect. If you try to make wings and fly off the roof but wind up crashing in the gutter, there's a flaw in your plan.
In the early 14th century, when the noun flaw was first recorded, it referred to a snowflake or spark of fire. That sense is now obsolete, and now we use flaw to describe shortcomings in either character or object. We all have flaws. It can also describe an intentional mark of imperfection. “You see,” said the dancer Martha Graham, “when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.”
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常用短语
单词用法
词源考究
词源不详。可能来自flake，碎片。引申词义缺陷，缺点。
词语辨析
flaw，error，fault，mistake。
这四个词都有“缺点，错误”的意思。它们的区别是：1.fault，flaw主要指“毛病，缺点”；mistake，error主要指“错误”。2.fault多指性格、心智状态、情绪、行为或习惯中的“缺点”。例如：The dean demands perfection in others，but cannot see faults in himself.系主任要求别人完美无缺，却看不到自己的缺点。3.error可指任何错误，也可指笔误，印刷上或计算上的错误。例如：Please pardon any error that you may discover in my letter.请原谅在我的信中你发现的一些错误。This book contains a lot of printer's errors.这本书有很多印刷错误。4.mistake指判断或理解方面的错误，或是由于缺乏思考或疏忽而造成的错误。例如：I used your ink by mistake.我用错了你的墨水。He made some spelling mistakes in his test paper.在考试试卷中，他犯了拼写错误。
同义词辨析
error, fault, blunder, flaw, mistake, shortcoming, defect, slip
这些名词均有”错误”或”缺点”之意。