Infirmity

(noun.) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age).

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• Almost every class of artificers is subject to some peculiar infirmity occasioned by excessive application to their peculiar species of work. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• When is a man to be safe from such wit, if age and infirmity will not protect him? 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• This natural infirmity I may very much regret, and I may endeavour, by all possible means, to free my self from it. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He found his brother-in-law in a condition of pitiable infirmity--and dreadfully afraid of Rebecca, though eager in his praises of her. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She went once with Jo, but the old gentleman, not being aware of her infirmity, stared at her so hard from under his heavy eyebrows, and said Hey! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Few people had discovered some cowardice and much infirmity of purpose under this imposing exterior. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It's always a pleasure to me to be tender towards human infirmity, he said. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Pend upon it, Sammy, it's a constitootional infirmity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I like to be tender to human infirmity--though I don't get many chances of exercising that virtue in my line of life. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• At eleven, on Thursday morning, Superintendent Seegrave (who is a mass of human infirmity) points out to all the women servants the smear on the door. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• In man alone, this unnatural conjunction of infirmity, and of necessity, may be observed in its greatest perfection. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• No, no, no,' said Eugene; shocked--to do him justice--at the thought of trifling with her infirmity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• However, having an infirmity--for I am hard of hearing, sir-- I expressed in pantomime the greatest astonishment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• But the spirit of resignation and endurance that had so long upheld her, was unable to contend against bodily weakness and infirmity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He was not a man to discover infirmity in the presence of danger. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I wish that the dread of infirmities was not so strong in me! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• We have been unfortunate, and recent events have drawn us from that every-day tranquillity befitting my years and infirmities. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• And to bear with my infirmities, Jane: to overlook my deficiencies. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But age has its little infirmities of temper, and she was not quite brought round yet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Dr. Franklin's increasing infirmities prevented his regular attendance at the council chamber, and in 1788 he retired wholly from public life. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• That's one of the many human infirmities which I always treat tenderly. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Mr. Pickwick nodded his readiness to humour the infirmities of age, and entered into a general conversation with the other members of the circle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• But with the blood of this ancient royal race, many of their infirmities had descended to Athelstane. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Have compassion on my infirmities for his sake. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• He procured prolonged leave of absence from the East India House, and indeed, his infirmities were daily increasing. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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