| 正面 | 4778.fragile 英 ['frædʒaɪl]美 ['frædʒəl]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. happen => perhaps.2. happen => hap.3. happen => hapless.4. hap "chance, fortune, luck" + 双写p加-y.5. happy => happily.adj. 脆的；易碎的 例句： 1. He remains the anchor of the country's fragile political balance.他仍然是维系该国脆弱的政治平衡的支柱。 fragile 易碎的来自fragment, 碎片。 fragilefragile: [17] Fragile and frail [13] are doublets: that is to say, they have the same ultimate source but have evolved in different ways. In this case the source was Latin fragilis ‘breakable’, a derivative of the same base (*frag-) as produced frangere ‘break’ (whence English fractious). Fragile was acquired either directly from the Latin adjective or via French fragile, but frail passed through Old French frale or frele on its way to English. Other English words to come from *frag- include fragment [15] (from Latin fragmentum) and saxifrage, literally ‘rockbreaker’.=> fraction, fracture, fragment, frail, saxifragefragile (adj.)1510s, "liable to sin, morally weak;" c. 1600, "liable to break;" a back-formation from fragility, or else from Middle French fragile (Old French fragele, 14c.), from Latin fragilis "easily broken," from root of frangere "to break" (see fraction). Transferred sense of "of frail constitution" (of persons) is from 1858." |