身體上的撐不住
把「一碰就裂」放在身體上：一次小意外就可能造成真正的傷害。
noun · C1
The state of being weak and easily harmed, especially in the body. It is used about people whose health and strength have grown thin and unsteady, often through age or illness.
虛弱
核心畫面
Think of something thin enough that you handle it carefully — a cup you would not leave at the edge of the table. Frailty can be pictured as that quality: not simply low in strength, but likely to give way if anything presses on it. English then lets the same picture cover a body and a character, so the word that describes a person who must not fall also describes a person who cannot hold out.
可以想成一樣薄到你會小心拿的東西——像一個你不會放在桌緣的杯子。frailty 畫的就是那種性質：不只是力氣小，而是…更多收起
可以想成一樣薄到你會小心拿的東西——像一個你不會放在桌緣的杯子。frailty 畫的就是那種性質：不只是力氣小，而是稍微一壓就會讓開、就會裂。英文接著讓同一個畫面同時罩住身體和品格，所以那個「不能跌倒的人」和那個「撐不住誘惑的人」，用的是同一個字。From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces frailty through Middle English frelete and Old French fraileté to Latin fragilitas, and notes it is a doublet of fragility — literally the state of being breakable, which is the picture the modern word still carries.
Wiktionary 記載 frailty 經中古英語 frelete、古法文 fraileté 來自拉丁文 fragilitās，並指出它與 fragility 同源。字面就是「易碎的狀態」，而這正是今天這個字還在用的畫面。
Wiktionary entry 'frailty' (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1240227975), supplied in the evidence packet.
Two branches
品格上的撐不住
同樣的裂縫換個位置：壓力一來，人心裡先讓開的那一處。
noun · C1
A weak part of someone's character — the kind of fault that makes a person give in, lose their nerve, or do something they know is wrong. It is often used in the plural, about the faults that everyone has.
弱點