foibles

The foibles of politics and the march of time can turn friends into enemies just as easily as the wind changes.

政治的缺陷以及时间的演进足以如风转向般轻易的将朋友变为敌人。

It has its foibles and faults but essentially it is a creation into which you stepped and to which you gave the love of your heart.

家庭结构有其弱点与缺陷，但是它本质上是一种创造，你进入它，给予它你发自内心的爱。

Muslim comedians do not just ridicule their fellow citizens' foibles. Satire bubbles up in even the most repressive regimes.

穆斯林喜剧演员不只是吐槽平民的小毛病。即使在镇压最残酷的政权里讽刺作品也有所涌现。

Her foibles, like her insistence on eating sweets at bedtime, seemed to come from her Armenian father.

她的小毛病，比如坚持要在就寝时间吃糖果，似乎遗传自她亚美尼亚的父亲。

I can think of at least three human foibles chronicled by behavioural economists that regularly impinge on politics.

在此，我至少能列举出三种被行为经济学家记录在案的、常能左右政局的人类小癖好。

Do these staff foibles tell us about the kind of president Senators Clinton or Obama would be?

这些工作人员自身的缺点能够告诉我们参议员克林顿或奥巴马将会是一个什么样的总统吗？

She seemed a counterpoint to Mr. Strauss-Kahn, whose male foibles were all too apparent.

她似乎与卡恩正相反，后者身上的男性弱点太过明显。

What interests me is not just the endless weakness of human nature but how technology now allows these foibles to be indulged at work.

令我感兴趣的，不仅是人性中无穷无尽的弱点，还有科技让人们在工作中纵容这些弱点的程度。

Those who prefer to be discreet usually benefit from Catholic society's widespread "don't ask, don't tell" tolerance of private foibles.

那些更喜欢慎重一些的同性恋经常会从天主教社会对私人生活癖好广为传布的“不问，不答”容忍中受益。

Talking too much is one of his foibles.

说话太多是他的缺点之一。

The foibles of human nature that result in the mass pursuit of instant wealth and effortless gain seem certain to be with us forever.

人类的追求即期财富和期望不劳而获的天性弱点看来将永远伴随我们。

Unless you married a robot, your partner comes pre-loaded with a whole range of human failures and foibles.

除非你与一个机器人结婚，否则你的情人天生就会有人的缺点和不足。

it is, after all, as much about the personalities and foibles of those whom diplomats encounter as about grand strategy.

归根到底，它不但研究伟大战略，也研究与外交家们打交道的那些人的性格和缺点。

In their designs, business models and philosophies, they offer a striking snapshot of European aspirations, anxieties and foibles.

在它们的设计、企业模型、以及经营理念中可以看到一幅体现欧洲人渴望、忧虑、与弱点的惊人画面。

Talking too much is one of Jack's foibles that I find a little annoying.

我觉得饶舌是杰克让人感到厌烦的缺点之一。

But I will applaud the attempt to overcome human foibles.

但我会为战胜人性弱点而作出的努力喝彩。

They also allow health services to tailor treatments depending on patients' personal preferences and behavioural foibles.

另外，它们可以让医疗服务者根据病人个人喜好及行为习惯给出因地制宜的治疗方法。

The authors warn that the crash will happen again unless governments find ways of compensating for these foibles through policy.

书中警告说，如果政府不能够找到纠正这类行为的有效方法，危机必将再次上演。

Her room was a study in the foibles of an eager and ambitious mind.

从她的房间可以看出一个热忠的，野心勃勃人的弱点。

Will to me, betraying the age means exposing its conceits, its foibles, its phony moral certitudes.

对我而言，背叛时代就意味着揭露它的狂妄、它的弱点、它枯萎的道德信念。