The deceptive manoeuvres of the Achesons still have a flimsy social base in China

艾奇逊们的欺骗做法在中国还有一层薄薄的社会基础。

Of inferior quality;flimsy or unsubstantial.

不坚定的质量低劣的;脆弱的或虚幻的

Not firm or solid;flimsy .

不坚固或不实在;脆弱的

Lacking firmness or strength;flimsy .

脆弱的缺乏坚强或力量的;脆弱的

The evidence against him is rather flimsy .

对他不利的证据不足凭信.

Elastic members of simple shape offer greater potential for stability than those that are unwieldily flimsy , or asymmetrical

简单形状的弹性构件要比不方便的，薄壁的或不对称的构件提供较大可能的稳定性。

Construction Tent: These are needed to construct all buildings except flimsy timber and chuck

建筑师帐篷:所有建筑物都需要它才能建造，除了伐木场和简易的饭馆。

She felt cold in her flimsy dress.

她穿着单薄的衣服觉得很冷。

It cost him nothing, emotionally, to attack romanticism, which was merely the flimsy veil that hid the fine features of American life

浪漫主义只是美国生活优越性的一层薄薄的面纱，他大可心安理得地去揭露它。

The flimsy room was a beaut

那个简陋的房间真难得。

Puccini, with his flimsy knowledge of China, took even greater liberties

普契尼凭着他对中国的朦胧认识，进行了更大胆的构思。

Weak or thin;flimsy .

弱小的或瘦的;脆弱的

It enters the pearl blinds, it wets the silk curtains; A fur coat feels cold, a cotton mat flimsy ;

散入珠帘湿罗幕,狐裘不暖锦衾薄。

Shuffling the flimsy biographical sheets, he barked questions in Russian which the interpreter translated into German

他翻着记载各人资料的薄纸，用俄语粗声粗气地发问，由译员译成德语。

He walked out fast, leaving the head waiter staring dubiously at the flimsy blue paper

他很快地走出去，撇下侍者头儿半信半疑地瞪着这张薄薄的蓝纸。

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

They are very trusting, and eagerly believe any kind of flimsy official information

他们天生轻信，尤其是对官方传达的消息即便是一戳即穿的谎言，他们也是乐于深信不疑。

He made a flimsy excuse.

他说了一个站不住脚的借口。

I was absolutely certain that I was going to plunge straight ahead, through the flimsy barrier, then down, down, down through an endless drop

我绝望地感到自己就要向前直冲出那不堪一击的护栏，然后下坠，再下坠，坠入万丈深渊。

I would scrawl my name on the cards and the name of one of my classmates on each flimsy envelope

我在每张贺卡上面潦草地写上自己的名字，并且在每个薄薄的信封上写上一个同学的名字。

a flimsy excuse (argument)

无力的借口(议论).

A person who dews not deliberately dimples of all his thoughts alike in cumbrous draperies and flimsy disguises may strike out twenty varieties of familiar everyday language, each coming somewhat nearer to the feeling he wants to convey

一个人写文章，只要会从熟悉的日常用语中想一二十种说法，这种语言更接近他所要表达的情感

After rain the sky looked blue and was dotted with flimsy white clouds.

雨过天晴，白云朵朵。

That illogical qualification shows how flimsy is the argument that capital punishment is a deterrent to murder.

这种不合逻辑的定罪，反映出所谓死刑可以慑止凶杀的论点是多么脆弱。

That illogical qualification shows how flimsy is the argument that capital punishment is a deterrent to murder.

这种不合逻辑的限制条件表明死刑对凶杀的威慑因素的论点是多么的不足自信。

This kind of paper is flimsy .

这种纸很薄。

||1:Worse, even if it were fully in place, this is still a rather flimsy sort of defence.||2:Relying on vast infusions of money from the IMF could actually worsen the problems of a country like Italy, since the fund’s presumed preferred-creditor status（IMF） would push private bondholders further down the pecking order.||3:Nor are the amounts being talked about enough to remove the risk of panic.||4:As Willem Buiter of Citigroup points out, the weaker members of the euro zone collectively need to borrow some EURO2 trillion over the next two years.

||1:更不妙的是，即使资金全部就绪，这也只能是一层脆弱的抵御。||2:事实上，依靠IMF灌入大量资金对于像意大利这样的国家来说会将问题恶化，因为该基金的预期优先债权人身份会将私人债券持有人推向更低的社会等级。||3:这笔数目也不足以消除出现大恐慌的风险。||4:正如花期公司的维勒姆?布提尔指出的那样，在未来两年内，欧元区较脆弱的成员国共需借款2万亿欧元左右。

||1:Whom to hire is one of the great problems organisation-man faces.||2:If he gets it wrong he may be forced to share a confined space for an indefinite period with someone deficient in wit, aptitude and hygiene, with nothing but a flimsy partition for protection.||3:If he gets it wrong in a different way, tomorrow he may be fired by today’s meek applicant.||4:Each industry has its own method for hiring: Britain’s spy service sometimes physically roughs-up new recruits to see how much they enjoy that sort of thing.||5:Candidates for more everyday roles within the civil service are given a bulging in-tray filled with documents of varying importance, and not enough time to clear it.

||1:公司管理人员需要处理的一大难题是应该聘请哪些人。||2:请的人不对，他只得在很长时期内与一个头脑迟钝、天赋不高又不怎么讲究卫生的人共同工作在一个有限的空间，中间只隔了一个薄薄的隔板。||3:如果选错人，今后他亦有可能被今天温顺的求职者炒掉。||4:每个行业自有一套招人的妙招：英国情报组织有时候要在身体上折磨新成员，看看他是否乐在其中。||5:申请普通公务员工作的人会拿到一个文件篮，塞的文件都要掉下来了，里面的文件重要性不尽相同，他们要在很短的时间里整理好文件。

On August 6th a flimsy-looking pilotless aircraft, the Zephyr S, came slowly in to land at an undisclosed location in Arizona,

8月6日，一架薄得像纸一般的无人驾驶飞机Zephyr S在美国亚利桑那州的一个未知地点缓慢着陆，

The IMF’s coffers are fuller, but the euro zone’s “firewall” is still flimsy ;

IMF金库充盈，欧元防火墙依旧薄弱；

flimsy cloth

n.稀布,松织布

flimsy evidence

不可靠的证据

flimsy material

薄织物