flimsy

名词 flimsy:

1. a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies
   同义词：onionskin

形容词 flimsy:

1. lacking solidity or strength and liable to break
   同义词：fragile
2. having little substance or significance
   同义词：slight, tenuous, thin
3. very thin and insubstantial
   同义词：light
4. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness

1. He arrived late and excused his tardiness in a flimsy manner.
   他来晚了，而且还以薄弱的借口来辩解他的迟到
2. The evidence against him was flimsy.
   指控他的证据不足信。
3. She wore a flimsy dress.
   她穿一件薄连衣裙。
4. It is a flimsy cardboard box.
   那是一个不结实的纸箱。

flim.sy

adj.（形容词）
flim.si.er,flim.si.est
Light, thin, and insubstantial:
轻而薄的：轻、薄且不牢固的：
例句：
a flimsy fabric.
轻薄的织物

Lacking solidity or strength:
脆弱的：缺乏硬度或力度的：
例句：
a flimsy table.
易损坏的桌子

Lacking plausibility; unconvincing:
薄弱的：缺乏合理性的；不可信的：
例句：
a flimsy excuse.
站不住脚的借口

n.（名词）
【复数】 flim.sies
Thin paper usually used to make multiple copies.
复写纸，打字纸：复写用的薄纸
Something written on this thin paper.
薄纸副本或文件：在这种薄纸上写下的东西

来源：
[Origin unknown]
[词源不明]

【引伸】
flim.sily
adv.（副词）
flim.siness
n.（名词）
<注释>The origin offlimsy, although uncertain, is not completely obscure.The word is first recorded in English in the 7th century in a dictionary of cant, the jargon of people such as thieves and beggars.Its early senses .frail. and .trivial.as well as its form may link it withflim-flam, recorded first around 538.The nounflim-flam could mean .a piece of nonsense or idle talk,. and the adjective could mean .frivolous.. Flim-flam itself is a reduplication in which the patternfl—m occurs twice, the first time with the sound ();the second, with the sound (2). Flim may be related to the Old Norse wordflim, meaning .a lampoon, libel..
Flimsy 的词源虽然不确定， 但并不是完全不清楚。这个单词在7世纪首次用英语记载于一本行话字典里，即记载如小偷和乞丐等人所使用的隐语的字典。它最初的意思是.脆弱的.和.轻微的.，其形式可能与flim-flam 有联系， 首次记载大约是在538年。Flim-flam 作名词时意思为.一句无意义的或无聊的话，. 作形容词时可当作.琐屑的，无意义的.讲。 Flim-flam 本身是一个重叠词，fl-m 这样形式出现两次， 第一次是与语音（i）组合；第二次是与语音（a）组合。 Flim 可能与古斯堪的纳维亚语flim 有关， 其意思为.讽刺，诽谤.