flaw

英 [flɔː] 美 [flɔ]

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※ 提供单词"flaw"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

flaw 缺点

词源不详。可能来自flake, 碎片。引申词义缺陷，缺点。

flaw: flaw: see flake
flaw (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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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。