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Flaw English Sense Flake Middle 5460.Flaw 英 Flɔː]美

正面 5460.flaw
英 [flɔː]美 [flɔ]

背面
释义:
n. 瑕疵,缺点;一阵狂风;短暂的风暴;裂缝,裂纹v. 使生裂缝,使有裂纹;使无效;使有缺陷vi. 生裂缝;变的有缺陷
例句:
1. The only flaw in his character seems to be a short temper.他性格中的唯一缺点好像就是脾气急。

1. flag, flake <====> flaw, floe, flay.2. blow => flaw.3. 谐音“缝裂”。4. f-(谐音“缝”) + law => flaw: 法律缝隙、法律缺陷、法律漏洞。
flaw 缺点词源不详。可能来自flake, 碎片。引申词义缺陷,缺点。
flawflaw: see flakeflaw (n.)early 14c., "a flake" (of snow), also in Middle English "a spark of fire; a splinter," from Old Norse flaga "stone slab, layer of stone," perhaps used here in a wider sense (see flag (n.2)). Old English had floh stanes, but the Middle English form suggests a Scandinavian origin. "The close resemblance in sense between flaw and flake is noteworthy" [OED]. Sense of "defect, fault" first recorded 1580s, first of character, later (c. 1600) of material things; probably via notion of a "fragment" broken off.flaw (v.)"cause a flaw or defect in," early 15c. (implied in flawed); see flaw (n.). Related: Flawing."

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