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词汇 weakling
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Definition of weakling in English:

weakling

noun ˈwiːklɪŋˈwiklɪŋ
  • 1A person or animal that is physically weak and frail.

    虚弱者,脆弱者;弱小的动物

    we spend money and effort in rearing every weakling
    a brood of weaklings
    he looked like a nine-stone weakling who had just thrown sand in the face of the bully
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Genetic testing will allow early detection of potential weaklings and poses ethical questions about whether they alone or society in general should bear their higher health costs.
    • Then, after a bit, rare side-effects are acknowledged in weaklings, infants and women.
    • These bags would each weigh 12 stone and to carry those up 12 or 14 stone steps all day was no job for a weakling.
    • In a 1983 ad, the Gillette man was depicted as the tiny weakling on a basketball court full of giants; his shaver, he said, helped him even the odds.
    • If you don't drink too much you're considered a weakling in some way.
    • Paul admits that as a child he was a bit of a weakling.
    • Let's see what kind of power you weaklings have.
    • He was a runt, a weakling brought up in the shadow of an accomplished elder brother who died of smallpox when Charles was 12.
    • Born prematurely, they suffered from febrile seizures as toddlers, a condition which left them weaklings.
    • According to John Wright, the virus is already in the soil everywhere, and has been for centuries, and it only breaks out when there are susceptible weaklings in the animal kingdom who have suffered nutritionally.
    • Bill was the original nine-stone weakling and not in good health when his call-up papers arrived.
    • I found it hard to stand there with the likes of him and not feel like a nine-stone weakling.
    • So I continue my set, and discover that I am perhaps not such a weakling after all!
    • They were barely able to drag themselves back to camp like the pathetic weaklings and cowards they are.
    • The shark's job is to weed out the weaklings, the ill and the infirm and it is designed for that job.
    • Your just a lowlife killer that knocks off weaklings, and turns on your own partners, isn't that right?
    1. 1.1 An ineffectual or cowardly person.
      无能者,懦怯者
      this is no place for weaklings
      he was a weakling and a hypocrite
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They look less like domineering control freaks than out-of-control weaklings, capable of producing endless reports and paper laws but paralysed under the slightest pressure.
      • Gene and Ray are men's men but Ray thinks that Sam is some namby-pamby weakling.
      • The reality is that this whole war on terror is the war of weaklings.
      • If he had he would have been able to banish the image of the Democratic weakling as effectively as Clinton banished the fiscal irresponsibility label.
      • Many have sought to portray George VI as a weakling who was moulded by his formidable wife.
      • He knew they were branding him a coward, a bleeding heart, or a weakling, but he didn't care what the public thought of him.
      • Dare to challenge this mantra and you are likely to vilified as a backward-looking weakling who just can't cut it in the online world.
      • When it comes to professional conduct, he's a fraud and a weakling.
      • The Christian life is not for wimps, loafers or weaklings.
      • She could recall the total disgust that she had felt towards such a cowardly weakling who would cry before his peers; it was revolting.
      • But she was happy to use and bolster her own image for party advantage, and that image was of a battling, indomitable leader surrounded by weaklings, faint hearts and compromisers.
      • To those who know him, he isn't a novelty act or a weakling who couldn't hack the rigours of the infantry.
      • First of all, if American liberals are such emotional weaklings that they go all to pieces over the loss of elections, thank goodness we don't have to rely on them to fight a war.
      • ‘Our power is wielded by weaklings and cowards, and our honour is false in all its points’.
      • I very nearly did, because I am that much of a simpering weakling who hates to upset people.
      • When people want to see everything in black and white, those who insist on unravelling issues into areas of grey are often dismissed as weaklings.
      • Stand up to the foe; he is a weakling and a coward!
      • Hedda, for her part, realises she may have made a mistake by marrying a weakling like George, but is too bored to care.
      • But bullies always end up being reduced to their inner weakling.
      • Intimidation of critics and the press is the hallmark of dictators and other absolutist weaklings.
      Synonyms
      milksop, namby-pamby, weak person, coward, pushover, mouse
      informal wimp, weed, sissy, drip, wet, ninny, mummy's boy, pansy, softie, doormat, runt, chicken, yellow-belly, fraidy-cat, scaredy-cat
      North American informal wuss, pussy
      archaic poltroon

Definition of weakling in US English:

weakling

nounˈwiklɪŋˈwēkliNG
  • 1A person or animal that is physically weak and frail.

    虚弱者,脆弱者;弱小的动物

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These bags would each weigh 12 stone and to carry those up 12 or 14 stone steps all day was no job for a weakling.
    • Born prematurely, they suffered from febrile seizures as toddlers, a condition which left them weaklings.
    • Your just a lowlife killer that knocks off weaklings, and turns on your own partners, isn't that right?
    • If you don't drink too much you're considered a weakling in some way.
    • Bill was the original nine-stone weakling and not in good health when his call-up papers arrived.
    • According to John Wright, the virus is already in the soil everywhere, and has been for centuries, and it only breaks out when there are susceptible weaklings in the animal kingdom who have suffered nutritionally.
    • In a 1983 ad, the Gillette man was depicted as the tiny weakling on a basketball court full of giants; his shaver, he said, helped him even the odds.
    • So I continue my set, and discover that I am perhaps not such a weakling after all!
    • I found it hard to stand there with the likes of him and not feel like a nine-stone weakling.
    • He was a runt, a weakling brought up in the shadow of an accomplished elder brother who died of smallpox when Charles was 12.
    • Genetic testing will allow early detection of potential weaklings and poses ethical questions about whether they alone or society in general should bear their higher health costs.
    • They were barely able to drag themselves back to camp like the pathetic weaklings and cowards they are.
    • The shark's job is to weed out the weaklings, the ill and the infirm and it is designed for that job.
    • Paul admits that as a child he was a bit of a weakling.
    • Then, after a bit, rare side-effects are acknowledged in weaklings, infants and women.
    • Let's see what kind of power you weaklings have.
    1. 1.1 An ineffectual or cowardly person.
      无能者,懦怯者
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Gene and Ray are men's men but Ray thinks that Sam is some namby-pamby weakling.
      • Stand up to the foe; he is a weakling and a coward!
      • I very nearly did, because I am that much of a simpering weakling who hates to upset people.
      • Intimidation of critics and the press is the hallmark of dictators and other absolutist weaklings.
      • The Christian life is not for wimps, loafers or weaklings.
      • Dare to challenge this mantra and you are likely to vilified as a backward-looking weakling who just can't cut it in the online world.
      • He knew they were branding him a coward, a bleeding heart, or a weakling, but he didn't care what the public thought of him.
      • The reality is that this whole war on terror is the war of weaklings.
      • ‘Our power is wielded by weaklings and cowards, and our honour is false in all its points’.
      • When it comes to professional conduct, he's a fraud and a weakling.
      • When people want to see everything in black and white, those who insist on unravelling issues into areas of grey are often dismissed as weaklings.
      • Many have sought to portray George VI as a weakling who was moulded by his formidable wife.
      • She could recall the total disgust that she had felt towards such a cowardly weakling who would cry before his peers; it was revolting.
      • They look less like domineering control freaks than out-of-control weaklings, capable of producing endless reports and paper laws but paralysed under the slightest pressure.
      • Hedda, for her part, realises she may have made a mistake by marrying a weakling like George, but is too bored to care.
      • If he had he would have been able to banish the image of the Democratic weakling as effectively as Clinton banished the fiscal irresponsibility label.
      • But she was happy to use and bolster her own image for party advantage, and that image was of a battling, indomitable leader surrounded by weaklings, faint hearts and compromisers.
      • First of all, if American liberals are such emotional weaklings that they go all to pieces over the loss of elections, thank goodness we don't have to rely on them to fight a war.
      • But bullies always end up being reduced to their inner weakling.
      • To those who know him, he isn't a novelty act or a weakling who couldn't hack the rigours of the infantry.
      Synonyms
      milksop, namby-pamby, weak person, coward, pushover, mouse
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