infirmities

英 [ɪnˈfɜːmɪtiz]

美 [ɪnˈfɜrmɪtiz]

n.  (长期的)体弱，生病
infirmity的复数

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (常指因年迈而)体弱的,虚弱的
  A person who isinfirmis weak or ill, and usually old.
  1. ...her aging, infirm husband.
     她年迈体弱的丈夫
  2. The infirmare people who are infirm.
     年迈体弱者
  3. We are here to protect and assist the weak and infirm.
     我们来这里保护、帮助年迈体弱者。

双语例句

• Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
  况且我们的软弱有圣灵帮助，我们本不晓得当怎样祷告，只是圣灵亲自用说不出来的叹息，替我们祷告。
• She gave me a long account of her many infirmities.
  她向我详细叙述了她的多种疾病。
• Now many boomers are coping with their elderly parents 'infirmities while fretting at the same time about who will provide their own care as they become frail in their turn.
  如今，这代人已到了供养老人的年纪，而于此同时，他们也为自己老去之时谁来照顾而担忧。
• And then, we insist upon it, the study of social deformities and infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, is not a business in which choice is permitted.
  并且，我们要强调，对社会的畸形和残疾进行研究，把它揭示出来以便加以医治，这种工作是绝不能单凭个人好恶而加以选择或放弃的。
• But in political and philosophical theories, as well as in persons, success discloses faults and infirmities which failure might have concealed from observation.
  但是，在政治理论、哲学理论和人们当中，成功揭示出失败可能掩盖起来的错误和缺点。
• As we think of this, our attitude should be one of silent expectation that as we pray, the Holy Spirit may help our infirmities, and pray within us with groanings that cannot be uttered.
  当我们想到这一点，我们的态度就会安静地等候在上帝面前，尤其当我们软弱到不知如何祷告时，圣灵更用说不出来的叹息为我们代祷。
• We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
  我们坚固的人，应当担代不坚固人的软弱，不求自己的喜悦。
• Many elderly people are isolated because of physical or mental infirmities, or through the loss of friends and family members.
  许多老年人之所以遭受孤单是由于身体或精神有恙或由于失去朋友或家庭成员。
• He called men, not to authority, but to service, the strong to bear the infirmities of the weak.
  他呼召人，不是要向别人作威作福，而是要服侍人。强壮的要体谅软弱的。
• Spain, which has almost twice the amount of government debt outstanding as Greece, has well-known infirmities – namely an anaemic economy, an unemployment rate over 20 per cent and a devastating real estate debacle and consequent banking crisis.
  西班牙的未偿付国债规模几乎是希腊的两倍，该国有着众所周知的弱点&即经济死气沉沉，失业率超过20%，房地产市场毁灭性崩盘以及由此导致的银行业危机。