flimsy
a. 易坏的, 脆弱的, 浅薄的 n. 易损坏的东西(或材料), 薄纸, 描图用薄纸, 薄纸稿纸
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释义与例句
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1.
A thing which is ill-founded, unconvincing, or weak.
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2.
Thin typing paper used together with carbon paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document; (countable) a sheet of such paper.
定语 过时 历史 不可数 可数 -
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A document printed or typed on such paper.
A service certificate.
可数 过时 历史 俚语 政治 军事 引申义 不可数 -
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A document printed or typed on such paper.
A banknote; (uncountable) paper money.
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A document printed or typed on such paper.
The text to be set into pages of magazines, newspapers, etc.; copy.
过时 历史 不可数 媒体 引申义 可数 -
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A hexahedral metal container with a capacity of four imperial gallons (about 18 litres) used by the British Army during World War II to hold fuel.
英国 可数 过时 历史 俚语 不可数 政治 军事
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1.
To make (something) likely to be easily damaged.
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To type or write (text) on a flimsy (“sheet of thin typing paper used together with carbon paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document”) (noun sense 2); to distribute such flimsies.
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3.
To treat (someone or something) as paltry or unimportant; to demean, to underestimate.
过时 比喻 历史 及物
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Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial.
He expected the flimsy structure to collapse at any moment.
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2.
Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial.
Of clothing: very light and thin.
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3.
Of an argument, explanation, etc.: ill-founded, unconvincing, weak; also, unimportant; paltry, trivial.
比喻a flimsy excuse
the flimsiest of theories
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Of a person: lacking depth of character or understanding; frivolous, superficial.
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Of a person, their physical makeup, or their health: delicate, frail.
比喻 废旧
词汇关系
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近义相关 4
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词源
The origin of the adjective is uncertain; it is possibly from flim(-flam) (“(noun) false information presented as true, misinformation, nonsense; poor attempt at deception, confidence trick, pretence; (adjective) frivolous, nonsensical; deceptive; fictitious”) or a metathesis of film (“thin layer of a substance; slender thread”) + -sy (suffix forming adjectives and nouns). The noun and verb are derived from the noun. Noun sense 4 (“metal container”) refers to the fact that the containers often split along their seams and leaked.
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