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Humor fosters acceptance of our humanness and our foibles.

幽默会培养我们人性和弱点上的接受程度。

Thank goodness we don't all have anthropologists following us around to document our foibles.

谢天谢地，我们不都由人类学家来跟着记录我们的弱点。

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。

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。

Brown was fascinated by people's quirks and foibles.

布朗对人们的种种怪癖十分着迷。

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。

We enjoy talking with other moms about them and their foibles.

我们喜欢和其他的妈妈聊天,聊各自的优缺点.

This is often backed up by the statement that a love of Nature is a foible of urbanized people who have no notion what Nature is really like.

支持此观念的是这样一种论调：热爱大自然是那些不清楚大自然什么样子的都市人的怪癖。

Today they recognize that human foibles, biases and our hunter-gatherer origins can often be critical factors.

现在,他们认识到,人性的缺点 、 偏见和打猎 - 采摘的起源,这些因素通常也很关键.

Owning a newspaper for "non-economic reasons" does not appear to be a German foible, Mr aspesi says.

阿斯佩西说，德国人似乎不会为了“非经济原因”而拥有一家报纸。

Tony Santora, an executive vice president for Right Management, a major outplacement firm in Philadelphia, says an information-technology manager flubbed a 2007 interview by choosing a personal foible as his reply: 'My true weakness is that I am a terrible cook.'

费城大型职业介绍机构Right Management执行副总裁桑特拉（Tony Santora）说，2007年一位IT经理在参加面试时，在有关缺点的问题上败下阵来：他的回答居然是，“我真正的缺点是，我的烹饪技术很糟糕。”

My grand-father was always buying himself new suits of clothes, it was a foible of his.

我祖父经常给自己买新衣服，这是他的毛病。

You have to get used to other people's quirks and foibles.

你得习惯别人的怪癖及缺点。

This made basic sense as financial engineering& an unsentimental effort to work around risks, selection biases, moral hazards and human foibles that could lead to disaster.

这样做大致合乎财务工程的道理，回避了风险、选择偏见、道德风险、人性弱点等问题。

You have a choice when confronted with these foibles: 1) Be irritated;

当你面对以下两种小缺陷时可以做一个选择：1）生气；

I shall never attempt to palliate my own foible by exposing the error of another.

我从不想暴露别人的错误，以图减轻自己的缺点。

It is a big foible of all the people.

这是一个很大的怪癖全体人民。

I should never attempt to palliate my own foible by expose the error of another.

我从不想暴露别人的错误,以图减轻自己的缺点.

Whenever a local foible or tradition grabbed his interest, such as the country's idiosyncratic waterway laws, he would research it exhaustively.

当地任何一种怪癖或者习俗（比如该国另类的水路交通法），他只要感兴趣，不管怎样都要查个究竟。

Knowing about a hero's early flops and foibles might disillusion some fans, but Fiegerman finds comfort in rough beginnings.

了解一个英雄人物早期的失败和缺点也许会使某些粉丝的幻想破灭，但菲格曼却从中得到慰藉。”

Can this failure be put down to his peculiar personality and foibles?

这次失败是否可以归因于他那特殊的个性与性格弱点？

There many humorous allusions to human foibles in the drama.

捐籽多处阅默地提到人类的弱点。

You could do Ebay , or dating or indulge another foible of choice.

你可以上eBay购物, 或者约会,或者纵容另外一个弱点.

Behind all the foibles and funny stories, and behind all the fuss made about his appearance and manners,

在所有的缺点和糗事背后，在所有关于他的言行举止的议论背后，

Commonsense scholarship on the foibles and oversights of a genius ( Times Literary Supplement)

关于天才的缺点和失败的常识（时代文学增刊）

We have to tolerate each other's little foibles.

我们得互相容忍对方的小缺点。

But enough of the car's little foibles.

不过，车的小缺点也说够了。

He finds human foibles endearing, but is unforgiving of pretension.

他觉得人性的弱点很可爱，但不能容忍惺惺作态。

We regular folk, however, usually don't appreciate having our foibles and quirks as the topic of conversation in the office break room.

然而我们这些普通人，却并不喜欢让自己的缺点和怪癖成为同事们茶余饭后闲聊的谈资。

My grandfather always carries his watch in his pocket; it's a foible of his.

我的祖父总是把手表放在口袋里, 这是他的一种怪习性.