1520s, coined by Tyndale from weak (adj.) + -ling as a loan-translation of Luther's Weichling "effeminate man" (from German weich "soft") in I Cor. vi.9, where the Greek is malakoi, from malakos "soft, soft to the touch," "Like the Lat. mollis, metaph. and in a bad sense: effeminate, of a catamite, a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness" ["Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament"].
双语例句
1. I'm a useless weakling, and I can't stand excitement.
我没有胆量去承受那激动, 我还是希望我能不见着他.
来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
2. What a weakling, how boring!
就这么稀松没劲 呀 !
来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
3. The author characterizes the central figure as a weakling.
作者把书中的中心人物描绘成一个懦弱的人.
来自辞典例句
4. The governor in Algeria, Chatel, was a weakling.
