The beauty of women is considerably owing to their weakness or delicacy, and is even enhanced by their timidity, a quality of mind analogous to it. I would not here be understood to say, that weakness betraying very bad health has any share in beauty; but the ill effect of this is not because it is weakness, but because the ill state of health, which produces such weakness, alters the other conditions of beauty; the parts in such a case collapse; the bright colour,--the lumen purpureum juventae, is gone; and the fine variation is lost in wrinkles, sudden breaks, and right lines.英文原著 · 《Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke》
When, as lately, events have happened that seem (to the fancy, at least) to test if not stagger the force of official government, it is amusing to ask oneself what is the real weakness of civilisation, ours especially, when it contends with the one lawless man. I was reminded of one weakness this morning in turning over an old drawerful of pictures.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, a terrible courage. I had that courage.英文原著 · 《An Ideal Husband》
LORD GORING. Lady Chiltern, I have sometimes thought that . perhaps you are a little hard in some of your views on life. I think that . often you don't make sufficient allowances. In every nature there are elements of weakness, or worse than weakness. Supposing, for instance, that - that any public man, my father, or Lord Merton, or Robert, say, had, years ago, written some foolish letter to some one .英文原著 · 《An Ideal Husband》
The Birmingham night he knew I was there. He played--I say it without vanity--for me. We players are not above that weakness, if it be a weakness. If ever anything inspires us to do our best, it is the presence in the audience of some fellow-artist who must, in the nature of things, know more completely than any one what we intend, what we do, what we feel. The response from such a member of the audience flies across the footlights to us like a flame. I felt it once when I played Olivia before Eleonora Duse. I felt that she felt it once when she played Marguerite Gautier for me.英文原著 · 《Autobiographies》
He sold his clothes and his jewelry to keep himself alive while he tramped the streets of New York looking for work. He starved himself to make this money last. His flesh was lead-colored from want of proper food, and he staggered from weakness. "`He that will not work neither let him eat,'" he said grimly. It was about this time that Miss Vance came home. Waldeaux in a moment of weakness gave her a hint of his defeat. "Is the world blind," she cried, "to deny work to a man of George's capacity? What does it mean?"
Clara heard of George's sufferings with equanimity.英文原著 · 《Frances Waldeaux》
I'm seeing weakness in Australian ore, so-- You're the only weakness I'm seeing.美剧 · 《Billions》
It's a sign of weakness. You hate weakness.美剧 · 《Suits》
We learn to get rid of our weaknesses so we can fight better.美剧 · 《Billions》
Either he wasn't authorized, or he sensed weakness.美剧 · 《Billions》