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If a person, a method, or a memory is fallible, they can make mistakes or be wrong. All humans are fallible — that is almost how the word is taught. Formal-to-neutral, and kind rather than cruel: calling someone fallible is often a way to forgive them, or to warn you not to trust a source blindly. The opposite, infallible, is the strong claim that something cannot be wrong. Though actually, people use infallible loosely (“this app is infallible”) when they only mean “very good.” Fallible sits closer to “can be wrong” than to “has already failed.”
會犯錯的、並非無誤的
組成From Middle English fallible, from Medieval Latin fallibilis (“liable to err”), from Latin fallere (“to deceive”).
同家族的字
- fallibilitythe noun: the fact of being able to be wrong
- infalliblethe opposite, with in- “not”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fallibleadj/ˈfal.ɪ.bəl/
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Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.
- prove fallible
- recognize as fallible
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Capable of failure.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。