weak
中文来自 ECDICT
- adj.
- 不牢固的，弱的，虚弱的，软弱的，无力的，无权力的，(论据等)不充分的
演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
From Middle English waik, wayk, wayke, weik, weyk, borrowed from Old Norse veikr (“weak”), from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz (“weak, yielded, pliant, bendsome”), from *wīkwaną (“to cease, fold, yield; to retreat”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, turn, wind”), from *weh₁y- (“to plait, twist, weave, wind; to cover, enclose, wrap”).
Related to Old English wīcan (“to yield”). Related to week and wick.
The grammar sense is a calque of German schwach.
释义（英文）
形容词 Adjective
- Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
- Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
- Limp, soft.
- Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
- (often with for) Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.
- Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
- (grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection