Flimsy

(adj.) lacking substance or significance; 'slight evidence'; 'a tenuous argument'; 'a thin plot'; a fragile claim to fame' .

(adj.) lacking solidity or strength; 'a flimsy table'; 'flimsy construction' .

校对:谢尔曼

• All these great walls are as exact and shapely as the flimsy things we build of bricks in these days. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This is indeed, he continued, as he looked at the flimsy texture and slender fingers, a slight and frail gage for a purpose so deadly! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Compared with the massiveness of the task, these books do indeed seem poetical and scholarly and flimsy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The sense of walls, dry, thin, flimsy-seeming walls, and a flimsy flooring, pale with its artificial black edges, was neutralising to the mind. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Result: the gate was only a flimsy structure of wood--we would break it down. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In doing this engines were built of such flimsy construction that they soon went to pieces. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There are temporary and flimsy subjugations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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