frail

• adj. 壊れやすい; 弱い
• n. 灯籠; 若い女性; 若い女の子

ラテン語のfragilis（壊れやすい）から略され、語源的にはfragile（壊れやすい）と同じ。

frail (adj.)

mid-14c., "morally weak," from Old French fraile, frele "weak, frail, sickly, infirm" (12c., Modern French frêle), from Latin fragilis "easily broken" (see fragility). It is the Frenchified form of fragile. Sense of "easily destroyed, liable to break" in English is from late 14c. The U.S. slang noun meaning "a woman" is attested from 1908; perhaps with awareness of Shakespeare's "Frailty, thy name is woman."

1. The frail craft rocked as he clambered in.

彼が這ってきたとき、その割れやすい工芸品が揺れた。

2.Mother was becoming too frail to live alone.

母親は一人暮らしができないほど衰弱している。

3.The boy was frail and never ganged with his fellows at school.

この男の子は体が弱く、同級生たちと遊んだことがない。

4.My grandmother was becoming more and more sad and frail as the years went by.

時間が経つにつれて、私の祖母はますます感傷的になり、弱ってきました。

5.She lay in bed looking particularly frail .

彼女はベッドに横たわっていて、とても弱っているように見えた。