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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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Brown was fascinated by people's quirks and foibles.

布朗对人们的种种怪癖十分着迷。

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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。

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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.

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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。

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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.

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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。

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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。”

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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。

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

你得习惯别人的怪癖及缺点。

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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。

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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；

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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。

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It is a big foible of all the people.

这是一个很大的怪癖全体人民。

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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.

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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。

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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。”

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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？

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There many humorous allusions to human foibles in the drama.

捐籽多处阅默地提到人类的弱点。

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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.

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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，

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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）

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We have to tolerate each other's little foibles.

我们得互相容忍对方的小缺点。

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But enough of the car's little foibles.

不过，车的小缺点也说够了。

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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。

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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。

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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.

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