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Frail Hard Person's Freɪl Sick Woman's Hands Hold

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Pron [freɪl]
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The sick woman's frail hands could hardly hold a cup.
这生病的女人双手虚弱无力,几乎拿不住杯子。
【重点词汇】
frail adj. 虚弱的
Vocab
frailphysically weak

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 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."

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