flaw
大学受験欠陥・欠点(fatal flaw)
意味
- (ガラス・陶器などの)割れ目,ひび,傷
- (…の)欠点,欠陥《+in+名》
- …に傷をつける
- 傷ができる
例文
Each and every statement they make reveals their flaws.
発言するたびにボロが出る。
Mary has her flaws, but she's a good and obedient child.
メアリーはちょっと抜けてるけど、素直でいい子だよ。
Count your blessings, not your flaws.
不足しているものを数えるな、恵まれたものを数えてみよう。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer of soil”), from Proto-Indo-European *plok- (“broad, flat”). Cognate with Icelandic flaga (“flake”), Swedish flaga (“flake, scale”), Danish flage (“flake”), Middle Low German vlage (“a layer of soil”), Old English flōh (“a fragment, piece”).