Most of them used their power badly, usually to prop up a frail ego.

他们中的大多数会滥用权力，通常只是自私地维持着那个飘摇的自我。

To face a frequently raging sea in a frail skiff was a race to certain disaster.

如果此时在一只脆弱的小艇上与时常有惊涛，骇浪的海洋作斗争，那肯定是白白送死。

Charles was a frail boy, and the family's frequent moves to ever poorer housing distressed him greatly.

狄更斯身体比较虚弱，一次次的搬家，居住条件越来越差，使他饱受折磨。

Ignorance is a frail base for virtue!

无知是美德的脆弱基础！

Would you mind helping a frail old woman?

你愿意帮助一个瘦弱的老人吗？

I turned around to find a frail, elderly woman dressed in flowing white robes.

我转身发现一位身穿飘逸白袍的年迈体弱的妇女。

To recommend gentleness, indeed, on a broad basis is strictly philosophical. A frail being should labour to be gentle.

实际上，在广泛的基础上推荐温和是严格的哲学。一个脆弱的人应该努力保持温柔。

There was total silence, broken only by the dry sobs of a frail, wispy-looking witch in the seat next to Mr. Crouch.

屋子里静悄悄的，只听到克劳奇先生旁边一个弱不禁风的女巫的抽噎声。

The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside when some powerful engine was at work.

他的胸腔微微震动，就象在一座不坚固的建筑中，开动了一架强力的机平时的情形一样。

All parties are aware of the industry's freak event. In 1965 a 47-year-old notary bought a home en viager from a frail 90-year-old lady.

各方都意识到了这一行业的反常事件。1965年，一位47岁的公证人从一位虚弱的90岁老妇人手里买下一套终身房产。

In this community, while there's a frail, informal economy, many family incomes are based on bags of trash scavenged to be recycled.

在这个社区，虽然经济脆弱，非正规经济，但许多家庭的收入都来自被回收利用的垃圾袋。

Opening the door, " Mother" Webster saw a frail little creature, " scarcely more than a hundred pounds of frightened skin and bones" .

打开门，“母亲” 韦伯斯特看到了一个虚弱的小动物， “只有一百多磅受惊的皮肤和骨头” 。

He is still a frail little man, but I think he drew sustenance from the sun and earth and the fruiting trees around him.

他仍然是一个虚弱的小个子， 但我认为他从太阳、大地和他周围的果树中汲取营养。

Right there, right where Randall is standing, is where he showed me that even a frail old bag of bones, his words, could still attempt a Charleston.

就在那里，就在兰德尔站着的地方，他还向我秀了一下即使是一把老骨头也能跳查尔斯顿舞，这是他的原话。

He knew the jungle well, and he knew that men have lived alone and naked among the savage beasts for years; but a frail and slender girl!

他对丛林了如指掌， 也知道人类多年来一直独自赤身裸体地生活在野兽之中； 而是一个瘦弱的女孩！

There in a corner of her drawer, tied with a frail blue ribbon, were all the letters and telegrams he had written her during the year past.

在她抽屉的一角， 用一条脆弱的蓝丝带系着的， 是他去年写给她的所有信件和电报。

Jo frowned upon that piece of extravagance, and asked why he didn't buy a frail of dates, a cask of raisins, and a bag of almonds, and be done with it?

乔对这种奢侈品表示不满，反问他为什么不买一篓枣子、一罐葡萄干和一袋杏仁就算了？

For Liz, all American men were divided into two classes: those who treated you as if you were a frail old lady, and those who treated you as if you were just frail.

对丽兹来说， 所有的美国男人都分为两类：一类人把你当成虚弱的老太太对待， 另一类人把你当成虚弱的人对待。

She steadied herself on her cane and looked up at the building that had housed her for more than half a century, holding up a frail hand to shield her eyes from the sun.

她拄着拐杖稳住身子，抬头望着这座容纳了她半个多世纪的建筑，举起纤弱的手遮挡阳光。

As Amy spoke, a great tear dropped on the golden hair of the sleeping child in her arms, for her one well–beloved daughter was a frail little creature and the dread of losing her was the shadow over Amy's sunshine.

艾米说着说着，一大滴泪珠落在睡在她臂弯里的小孩子的金发上，因为她这惹人怜爱的唯一的女儿是个身体虚弱的小东西，怕失去她正是艾米心中的阳光中的一片阴影。