英[freɪl]美[freɪl]
记忆方法
词根词缀法
词根frail n frailty虚弱；弱点；意志薄弱frailness脆弱；不坚定
adjective(形容词)
双解例句
adjective(形容词)
小知识
Something that is delicate and fragile can be described as frail. Grandma's favorite vase is probably too frail to use for football practice; some of us have learned that the hard way.
Frail can also be used to describe a person's physical condition: “When I broke my grandmother's vase, she yelled in a voice so loud that it was hard to believe it was coming from her small, frail frame.” Another way to use frail is in reference to a person's emotional state. As the poet Sylvia Plath astutely observed, “How frail the human heart must be.”
实用短语
单词用法
词语辨析
brittle，fragile，frail。这些形容词都含有“易碎的”的意思。brittle指没有弹性或伸缩性的脆性材料，暗示受压或被扭曲时易碎。fragile除指易碎外，还指人身体虚弱，动辄就得病。frail多指人体虚弱，也指某物不耐用，易碎易损。weak，feeble，frail，fragile。
这些形容词均有“虚弱的，乏力的”的意思。weak普通用词，指缺乏应有的力量，可用于身体、意志或精神。feeble指身体衰弱无力，精力几乎耗尽，含令人怜悯的意味。frail多指因经常生病而身体纤弱。fragile可与frail换用，但语气强，侧重脆弱，指人容易生病，指物容易破碎。
词源词缀
缩写自拉丁语fragilis，易碎的，词源同fragile.来源于拉丁语中frangere(打破，打碎)的派生词fragilis(易碎的)，经由古法语frale或frele进入英语为frail。=与词根-frag-(打破，打碎)同源
同义词辨析
brittle, fragile, frail
这些形容词都含有”易碎的”之意。