核心畫面
Picture a of glass with one hairline crack in it. Everything else is fine; that one line is the reason it cannot be called perfect. A flaw is always a single spot within something otherwise sound — which is why the same word works for a mark on a product, a hole in an argument, and a weak point in a person's character.
可以想成：一片玻璃上有一道細細的裂痕。其他地方都好好的，就是那一道讓它稱不上完美。flaw 永遠是「一個可以指出來的…更多收起
可以想成：一片玻璃上有一道細細的裂痕。其他地方都好好的，就是那一道讓它稱不上完美。flaw 永遠是「一個可以指出來的點」，藏在一個整體還算完好的東西裡面——所以同一個字可以用在產品上的瑕疵、論點裡的漏洞，以及一個人性格上的弱點。原始詞典資料11 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。
flawnoun詞源 1/flɔː/
- 1
obsoleteA flake, fragment, or shiver.
- 2
obsoleteA thin cake, as of ice.
- 3
A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
- There is a flaw in that knife.
- That vase has a flaw.
- 4
A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
- Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?
- 5
A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
- 6
lawA defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
- a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute
flawverb詞源 1/flɔː/
- 1
To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
- 2
To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
flawnoun詞源 2/ˈflɔː/
- 1
A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
- And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw
- Yniol with that hard message went; it fell, / Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn: […]
- 2
A storm of short duration.
- 3
A sudden burst of noise and disorder
- And deluges of armies from the town / Come pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw.
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。