[12] {kheisthai} = laxari, dissolvi, to be most friable, to scatter readily.英文原著 · 《The Economist》
I have described the mine as a hole. That was all I saw at first--a great black hole in the dark brown earth of the mountain-side, from which ran down a still darker streak into the waste places far below it. But as I looked longer I saw that it was faced by a ledge cut out of the friable soil, on which I was now able to descry the pronounced white of two or three tent-tops and some other signs of life, encouraging enough to the eye of one whose lot it was to crawl like a fly up that tremendous mountain-side.英文原著 · 《The Woman in the Alcove》
These hospital records show friable construction material in his lungs.美剧 · 《Suits》
We can suction-resect this friable lesion and control the bleeding better with the argon beam coagulator.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》