foible
noun /ˈfɔɪbl/
/ˈfɔɪbl/
- a silly habit or a strange or weak aspect of a person’s character that is not considered serious by other people
（性格上无伤大雅的）怪癖，弱点，小缺点 - We have to tolerate each other's little foibles.
我们得互相容忍对方的小缺点。 - He often writes about the workings of government and the foibles of politicians.
他经常写政府的运作和政治家的缺点。 - I soon got used to his little foibles.
我很快就习惯了他的小缺点。
词源late 16th cent. (as an adjective in the sense ‘feeble’): from obsolete French, in Old French fieble, from Latin flebilis ‘lamentable’, from flere ‘weep’. This sense also formerly occurred as a sense of the word feeble and dates from the 17th cent. - We have to tolerate each other's little foibles.