Foible

It is a big foible of all the people .

这是一个很大的怪癖全体人民。

Whenever a local foible or tradition grabbed his interest , such as the country 's idiosyncratic waterway laws , he would research it exhaustively .

当地任何一种怪癖或者习俗（比如该国另类的水路交通法），他只要感兴趣，不管怎样都要查个究竟。

We have to tolerate each other 's little foibles .

我们得互相容忍对方的小缺点。

Brown was fascinated by people 's quirks and foibles .

布朗对人们的种种怪癖十分着迷。

He finds human foibles endearing , but is unforgiving of pretension .

他觉得人性的弱点很可爱，但不能容忍惺惺作态。

You have to get used to other people 's quirks and foibles .

你得习惯别人的怪癖及缺点。

But enough of the car 's little foibles .

不过，车的小缺点也说够了。

There many humorous allusions to human foibles in the drama .

捐籽多处阅默地提到人类的弱点。

Can this failure be put down to his peculiar personality and foibles ?

这次失败是否可以归因于他那特殊的个性与性格弱点？

But I will applaud the attempt to overcome human foibles .

但我会为战胜人性弱点而作出的努力喝彩。

Her room was a study in the foibles of an eager and ambitious mind .

从她的房间可以看出一个热忠的，野心勃勃人的弱点。

Thank goodness we don 't all have anthropologists following us around to document our foibles .

谢天谢地，我们不都由人类学家来跟着记录我们的弱点。

I shall never attempt to palliate my own foible by exposing the error of another .

我从不想暴露别人的错误，以图减轻自己的缺点。

We enjoy talking with other moms about them and their foibles .

我们喜欢和其他的妈妈聊天，聊各自的优缺点。

Today they recognize that human foibles , biases and our hunter-gatherer origins can often be critical factors .

现在，他们认识到，人性的缺点、偏见和打猎-采摘的起源，这些因素通常也很关键。

Behind all the foibles and funny stories , and behind all the fuss made about his appearance and manners ,

在所有的缺点和糗事背后，在所有关于他的言行举止的议论背后，

My grand-father was always buying himself new suits of clothes , it was a foible of his .

我祖父经常给自己买新衣服，这是他的毛病。

You have a choice when confronted with these foibles : 1 ) Be irritated ;

当你面对以下两种小缺陷时可以做一个选择：1）生气；

Commonsense scholarship on the foibles and oversights of a genius ( Times Literary Supplement )

关于天才的缺点和失败的常识（时代文学增刊）

What interests me is not just the endless weakness of human nature but how technology now allows these foibles to be indulged at work .

令我感兴趣的，不仅是人性中无穷无尽的弱点，还有科技让人们在工作中纵容这些弱点的程度。

Humor fosters acceptance of our humanness and our foibles .

幽默会培养我们人性和弱点上的接受程度。

We regular folk , however , usually don 't appreciate having our foibles and quirks as the topic of conversation in the office break room .

然而我们这些普通人，却并不喜欢让自己的缺点和怪癖成为同事们茶余饭后闲聊的谈资。

This made basic sense as financial engineering & an unsentimental effort to work around risks , selection biases , moral hazards and human foibles that could lead to disaster .

这样做大致合乎财务工程的道理，回避了风险、选择偏见、道德风险、人性弱点等问题。

Owning a newspaper for " non-economic reasons " does not appear to be a German foible , Mr aspesi says .

阿斯佩西说，德国人似乎不会为了“非经济原因”而拥有一家报纸。

Knowing about a hero 's early flops and foibles might disillusion some fans , but Fiegerman finds comfort in rough beginnings .

了解一个英雄人物早期的失败和缺点也许会使某些粉丝的幻想破灭，但菲格曼却从中得到慰藉。”

This is often backed up by the statement that a love of Nature is a foible of urbanized people who have no notion what Nature is really like .

支持此观念的是这样一种论调：热爱大自然是那些不清楚大自然什么样子的都市人的怪癖。

Well to me betraying the age means exposing its conceits , its foibles ; its phony moral certitudes .

对我来说，背叛时代意味着揭露它的自负、缺点和伪善的道德信条；

He would have been able to see his father 's foibles , and he might have found the precept of absolute piety somewhat difficult to live up to .

他一定会看出他父亲的缺点，因此也许会觉得那种绝对孝敬父母的观念有点不易实行。

He was to the end an immensely human figure who loved life and laughter and was subject to the same weaknesses and foibles as the rest of us .

归根结底，他是极富有人情味的人，热爱生活和欢笑，但也拥有与其他人一样的弱点和缺陷。

The ability to laugh at your foibles not only makes you happier as a person , it makes you more powerful , more influential and more attractive to others .

自嘲自己的怪癖不仅会让你成为一个更幸福的人，而且使你更有力量，更有影响力，也更有魅力。