defect
音标：
英音/ ˈdiːfekt / 美音/ ˈdiːfekt /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Although the defects could be fixed, the report said, some trains required “structural and design modifications” while others needed “sealant, drainage or corrosion corrections.”
报告称，尽管缺陷可以修复，但一些列车需要“结构和设计修改”，而另一些列车则需要“密封剂、排水或腐蚀修正”。
—New York Times
James was found to have a congenital heart defect in July and was cleared to return to the sport in November.
詹姆斯在 7 月份被查出患有先天性心脏病，并于 11 月份获准重返赛场。
—BBC
One estimate has suggested that Fujitsu secured more than £4bn of business from the government in the last five years, even after information about the defects involving Horizon emerged.
一项估计表明，即使在有关 Horizon 缺陷的信息曝光之后，富士通在过去 5 年里从政府那里获得了超过 40 亿英镑的业务。
—BBC
基本释意：
noun
a failing or deficiency
缺点，缺陷，毛病
同义词：
shortcoming,blemish,mar,fault,flaw,desert
短释义：
In a person, a defect is an imperfection, which can manifest itself mentally or physically. If you are diagnosed with a heart defect, you will have to seek the advice of specialists. A hearing defect might leave your dad deaf in one ear. If you are becoming forgetful, you can joke that you are developing a mental defect, but if it continues, you’ll probably want to have your head examined.
某件事有缺陷就是缺陷。在某些商店，您可以购买有轻微瑕疵的衣服。您必须小心，因为缺陷可能很小，例如缺少纽扣，也可能很严重，例如袖子长度不均匀。
长释义：
In a person, a defect is an imperfection, which can manifest itself mentally or physically. If you are diagnosed with a heart defect, you will have to seek the advice of specialists. A hearing defect might leave your dad deaf in one ear. If you are becoming forgetful, you can joke that you are developing a mental defect, but if it continues, you’ll probably want to have your head examined.
对于一个人来说，缺陷是一种不完美，可以在精神上或身体上表现出来。如果您被诊断患有心脏缺陷，您必须寻求专家的建议。听力缺陷可能会让你父亲的一只耳朵失聪。如果你变得健忘，你可以开玩笑说你正在出现精神缺陷，但如果这种情况持续下去，你可能需要检查一下你的头部。
文学例句：
It looked like a birth defect, not an injury, so it could have been caused by a witch.
它看起来像是先天缺陷，而不是外伤，因此可能是女巫造成的。
—A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
“Right after you was born. He must be a magician, because as soon as he heard the magic words ‘birth defect,’ he disappeared.”
“你出生之后，他一定是个魔法师，因为他一听到‘先天缺陷’这个魔法词，就消失了。”
—Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”
“我相信，每一种性格都存在某种特定邪恶的倾向——一种自然缺陷，即使是最好的教育也无法克服。”
—Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
词源：
defect (n.)early 15c., “want or lack of anything,” especially lack of something essential to perfection or completeness, from Old French defect and directly from Latin defectus “failure, revolt, falling away,” noun use of past participle of deficere “to fail, desert,” from de “down, away” (see de-) + combining form of facere “to do, make” (from PIE root *dhe- “to set, put”).Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
缺陷（n.）15世纪早期，“想要或缺乏任何东西”，尤其是缺乏对完美或完整性至关重要的东西，来自古法语缺陷，直接来自拉丁语缺陷“失败，反抗，堕落”，过去分词的名词用法deficere“失败，沙漠”来自 de“向下，离开”（参见 de-）+facere“做，制作”的组合形式（来自 PIE 根 *dhe-“设置，放置”）。相关条目 &更多的
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