Defect

(noun.) a failing or deficiency; 'that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information'.

(noun.) an imperfection in a bodily system; 'visual defects'; 'this device permits detection of defects in the lungs'.

(noun.) an imperfection in an object or machine; 'a flaw caused the crystal to shatter'; 'if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer'.

(verb.) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; 'If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot'.

录入:奥利维尔

• I have something beyond this, but I will call it a defect, not an endowment, if it leads me to misery, while ye are happy. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Many efforts have been made to overcome this defect, but as yet with only partial success. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The average spectator today can see a defect in an exhibited film as quickly as an expert. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• And here is another defect which is quite as bad. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• This, then, will be the first great defect of oligarchy? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Soon Faust discovered the same defect in the type that the workmen at Strasburg had discovered. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• His Art and its Defects Lasted until Nineteenth Century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The doctor may have been wrong when he discovered the child's defects of intellect, and predicted that she would 'grow out of them. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I have said, that the defects of her character awoke and acquired vigour from her unnatural position. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She knows just enough about it to be conscious of her own sad defects. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Redwood lumber, being light in weight and singularly free from many of the defects so prevalent in other wood, is extremely easy to work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• You are so proud of your defects. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• And a temper reckoned high in the sum total of her defects. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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