flimsy的意思|flimsy的解释-里氏词典

flimsy ['flɪmzɪ]

a. 易坏的, 脆弱的, 浅薄的

n. 易损坏的东西(或材料), 薄纸, 描图用薄纸, 薄纸稿纸

[法] 无价值的, 易损的, 轻薄的

It is a flimsy cardboard box.
那是一个不结实的纸箱。
She wore a flimsy dress.
她穿一件薄连衣裙。
The evidence against him was flimsy.
指控他的证据不足信。

flimsy
flimsier, flimsiest

[ noun ]

a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies

<noun.substance>

[ adj ]

not convincing

<adj.all>

unconvincing argument

as unconvincing as a forced smile

lacking solidity or strength

<adj.all>

a flimsy table

flimsy construction

lacking substance or significance

<adj.all>

slight evidence

a tenuous argument

a thin plot

a fragile claim to fame

Flimsy \Flim"sy\, a. [Compar. {Flimsier}; superl. {Flimsiest}.]
[Cf. W. llymsi naked, bare, empty, sluggish, spiritless. Cf.
{Limsy}.]
Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or
solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without
reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse,
objection.

Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. --Pope.

All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain.
--Sheridan.

Syn: Weak; feeble; superficial; shallow; vain.

Flimsy \Flim"sy\, n.
1. Thin or transfer paper.

2. A bank note. [Slang, Eng.]

Ibrahim Nafei, editor of the leading government-owned newspaper Al-Ahram, said in an editorial Friday that a PLO statement on the attack was "flimsy and weak, to say the least.
Not only that: they throw a honking great brick through the flimsy plot and leave a mess of shattered ideals.
"They all want to pay with aluminum money," one St. Pauli district prostitute complained Saturday night, referring to the flimsy East German coins.
This is fine for wan catwalk waifs: not so good if you want to look normal. White summer fabrics inevitably look flimsy, even unintentionally transparent.
But the gate in the fence is unlocked, and the nests of swiftlets are collected day and night. Young boys swarmed up flimsy bamboo poles and scaffolding to scrape the nests from the roof of the caves.
"That's a pretty flimsy reason to believe exports couldn't be made," Mr. Ruiz said, "because a paper trail of documents exists in many hands that would prevent such an interruption.
Because of a flimsy set of circumstantial evidence, the woman was charged with murdering the baby.
Senator Charles Grassley has tried for years to end Congress's practice of using flimsy "separation of powers" arguments to exempt itself from all manner of laws.
Moreover, the Republicans assert that the governor is depending on "ephemeral" and "flimsy" projections of $245 million in extra revenues this year, based on stepped-up enforcement by the Revenue Department and the state auditor.
Buffeted by conflicting bids for our Yuletide attention, we scarcely know which is the way to cosy naturalism and which to state-of-the-art make-believe. The Pagemaster, promising on paper but flimsy on film, prompts another question.
With an American reporter in jail on flimsy (really nonexistent) charges, no matter what he confessed to under duress, Mikail Gorbachev could not have conducted his "I am a reasonable man" campaign in Europe.
Some of the same people, of course, once dismissed Charter 77 as flimsy optimism.
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has criticized the flimsy five-and nine-story apartment buildings constructed in the 1960s and 1970s that collapsed during the quake.
Perhaps Mr. Casey did cut him out of the illicit program. Mr. Gates, however, admits that he had heard some rumors of the North operation before it became public, but disregarded what he termed the "flimsy" evidence.
And to keep pace with runaway inflation, the state is printing bank notes so flimsy that some bills are printed on only one side.
The depot is in a densely populated residential district of flimsy, frame houses.
"The pretext to invade an independent, sovereign state is a false, flimsy pretext.
The hypothetical weapon has also been described as too long, too flimsy and too vulnerable for a workable gun.
It is intellectual hocus-pocus. What we see is seven men who dress up in seven items of flimsy female clothing (they look foolish enough to appear on the cat-walk of almost any British fashion show) and then perform brief, vivid solos.
'We lost everything,' said one villager, gesticulating at the flimsy wooden shack he now calls home. This was not an isolated incident.
He finally was fired in January on what he describes as a flimsy pretext of failure to respond to its requests and to perform his tasks adequately.
The thrift even put Dixon's picture on a promotional $3 bill that also carried the slogan "In Don We Trust." But Vernon's flimsy loan base became apparent when real estate values fell with the price of oil in the mid-'80s.
The cyclone also took a heavy toll of the flimsy mud and palm-thatch dwellings used by Bangladeshi fishermen and rice farmers.
But Mr. Chien, sitting bare-chested on his flimsy porch in the midday sun, would give up the fan and the road to get back what his village used to have: fertile rice fields and a lake filled with fish.
However flimsy, this early impression can be a major impediment for a campaign already running behind.

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