a silly habit or a strange or weak aspect of a person’s character that is not considered serious by other people （性格上无伤大雅的）怪癖，弱点，小缺点 We have to tolerate each other's little foibles. 我们得互相容忍对方的小缺点。 He often writes about the workings of government and the foibles of politicians. 他经常写政府的运作和政治家的缺点。 I soon got used to his little foibles. 我很快就习惯了他的小缺点。
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as an adjective in the sense ‘feeble’): from obsolete French, in Old French fieble, from Latin flebilis ‘lamentable’, from flere ‘weep’. This sense also formerly occurred as a sense of the word feeble and dates from the 17th cent.
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