flaccidity

基本解釋

Unless they are taken in doses high enough to cause flaccidity, anti-spasticity drugs usually do not prevent spasms.
除非他們採(cǎi)取的劑量很高，足以造成痿，抗痙攣葯物通常不會(huì)防止痙攣。
When Mr Abdulmutallab failed to detonate his bomb last Christmas, for example, Mr Obama’s Republican foes were quick to accuse the vacationing president of flaccidity in face of danger.
比如，去年聖誕節(jié)Abdulmutallab先生試圖炸機(jī)未遂之後，奧巴馬的共和黨政敵立即跳出來指責(zé)這位縂統(tǒng)麪對(duì)危險(xiǎn)過於軟弱。
Obama has been more cautious about how he deploys the military, but his caution has prompted his would-be Republican challengers to denounce him for flaccidity in standing up for American values.
奧巴馬已經(jīng)在軍事部署方麪更加小心謹(jǐn)慎，但這也激起他未來的共和黨對(duì)手們職責(zé)他在支持美國(guó)價(jià)值觀問題上的軟弱。

But the silence and seeming insensitivity of the Israeli mainstream in the face of all this is not merely a case of judicial or even moral flaccidity.
ECONOMIST: Israel
Some of America's critics counsel a generalised flaccidity, in the style of Mrs Megawati: keep a low profile and do nothing at all that might stir up the hornets.
ECONOMIST: Bali, Iraq and now a nuclear North Korea
When Mr Abdulmutallab failed to detonate his bomb last Christmas, for example, Mr Obama's Republican foes were quick to accuse the vacationing president of flaccidity in face of danger.
ECONOMIST: Lexington