英:[ˈvʌlnərəbl]
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英:[ˈvʌlnərəbl]
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adj.
(地方)易受攻击的
易受伤的
易受批评的
[桥牌]已成局的
vul·ner·a·ble
vuhl n r bl
vulnerably (adv.), vulnerability (n.)
词根:vulnerably
adv.vulnerably 脆弱地;易受伤害地
n.vulnerability 易损性;弱点
adjective
being capable of being hurt or injured; having weakness.These plants are delicate and highly vulnerable to frost.Abuse from his father as a child had left him feeling vulnerable as an adult.The candidates want people to believe that they are strong and not vulnerable.
open to attack or danger.Out in the open and without camouflage, the troops were highly vulnerable.The towns on the coast are vulnerable to hurricanes.
open to criticism or censure.The discovery of the mayor's earlier drug use left him vulnerable to the press.He had blundered and was now vulnerable to criticism.
大约1600年,源自于晚期拉丁语的 vulnerabilis,意为“伤害”,源自于拉丁语的 vulnerare,意为“创伤,伤害,损伤”,源自于 vulnus(属格 vulneris),意为“伤口”,可能与 vellere “拔,撕裂”(见 svelte)有关,或者源自于 PIE 语系的 *wele-nes-,源自于 *wele-(2)“打击,伤害”(见 Valhalla)。
易受攻击的
有弱点的
弱点
Late Latin vulnerabilis, from Latin vulnerare to wound, from vulner-, vulnus wound; probably akin to Latin vellere to pluck, Greek oulē wound
The first known use of vulnerable was circa 1616
vulvanoun
the parts of the female genital organs that are on the outside of the body
vulvanoun
the parts of the female genital organs that are on the outside of the body
vulvanoun
the parts of the female genital organs that are on the outside of the body
vulturenoun
any of various large birds that feed mostly on animals found dead and that are related to the hawks and eagles but have weaker claws and the head usually naked
a greedy or predatory person
vulturenoun
any of various large birds that feed mostly on animals found dead and that are related to the hawks and eagles but have weaker claws and the head usually naked
a greedy or predatory person
vulnerableadjective
capable of being physically or emotionally wounded
open to attack or damage
a vulnerable position
vulnerableadjective
capable of being hurt : susceptible to injury or disease
the liver is itself vulnerable to nutritional impairment—The Journal of the American Medical Association
1 She wished she had never seen her sister look so vulnerable.
2 Standing next to the rest of them in their heavy brocade and embroidered magnificence, he looks exquisitely vulnerable.
3 Her face was wise, freckled, and touchingly vulnerable.
4 It looked vulnerable, soft, like an easily wounded shin, full of bone but susceptible to the slightest pain.
5 I'm vulnerable and unarmed, but I've told her the truth, and somehow that gives me a sense of strength I’ve never felt before.
6 “Look, we’re both men here. We know that when women are vulnerable, some men will try to take advantage. Now, I know you’re not one of those types of fellows.”
7 It was better that a spear point should stay an the shield, rather than glance off upward or downward, and perhaps hit a more vulnerable point of the body armour.
8 More than 20 of them would be outside the no take area and vulnerable to catch-and-release fishing.
其中有20多个位于禁捕区之外,很容易受到捕获后放生钓鱼法的影响。
9 “He ached for it. He had a vulnerable side that most people didn’t see; it really bothered him that he wasn’t more widely respected as a butt-kicking climber. He felt slighted, and it hurt.”
10 From behind, she looked as small and vulnerable as a child.
11 Lee sits astride his horse, painfully vulnerable to a sniper’s bullet despite his flag of truce.
12 For that brief moment, the grandmother looks vulnerable, desperate, human.
13 The vulnerable vital points of the human anatomy.
14 But it is an ominous sign of the direction that a society of people so vulnerable to sexual control might take.
15 But when they reached the lowest point, and their hands were busy with bow and arrow, they were vulnerable, and the bears would explode upward with raking paws to drag them down.
16 When I look back at it now, I believe I must have caught him so physically weak that his defenses were vulnerable.
17 In shorts and rubber-soled shoes he looked vulnerable and misplaced, like a Cro-Magnon man lost in the centuries.
18 It’s been hard to watch as carefully built, compassionate policies have been rolled back, as we’ve alienated some of our closest allies and left vulnerable members of our society exposed and dehumanized.
19 I kept ‘ ‘cased’ ’ in my head vulnerable places and situations and I would perform the next job only when my bankroll in my pocket began to get too low.
20 We are leading a global all vulnerable nuclear materials from terrorists.
我们领导全球防止核材料落入恐怖分子手中的行动.
1 无防备的
2 脆弱
weak slight tender delicate slender flimsy frail insubstantial unsubstantial unfortified finespun sl. slightly frailty fragile brittle tenuous paper-thin fragility tenuousness flimsiness paper slim rotten sleazy cobweb infirm frangible threadbare washy fine-spun delicacy pasteboard expose sensitive open namby-pamby weaken perishable crumbly shivery slimsy slimpsy frangibility
3 易受…的
5 脆弱的
weak slight tender delicate slender flimsy frail insubstantial unsubstantial unfortified finespun sensitive fragile pap tenuous infirm washy frangible peerie brittle paper-thin paper slim rotten sleazy cobweb threadbare fine-spun pasteboard expose namby-pamby perishable crumbly shivery slimsy slimpsy
7 易受伤害的
11 易受影响的
12 易接受的
15 可伤害的