| 单词 | inherent vice |
| 释义 | inherent vice noun[C] ukusINSURANCE anaturalcharacteristicthatcausessomegoodsto bespoiledorbecomedamaged, whichinsurancecompanieswill notacceptas arisk: Theinsurersdeniedanyliabilityon thegroundsthat thedamagewasdueto aninherentvicein thecomputersystems. Examplesofinherent viceinherent vice In the legal sense,inherentvicemay make an item an unacceptable risk to a carrier or insurer. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theinherentviceof capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Is the machinery then set in motion in truth defective--is there someinherentvicein the construction of the state engine? FromProject Gutenberg Theinherentviceof the course of policy which we had initiated was beginning to infect every branch of the administration. FromProject Gutenberg Failure frominherentvicein the cement has been already touched on; it can always be traced to want of skill and care in manufacture. FromProject Gutenberg They are not a separate cast in society, doomed to ignorance, or degraded byinherentvice; they are capable, they are desirous of instruction. FromProject Gutenberg And by a parity of reasoning, if marriage were to last one year only, it would by itsinherentvicecome to grief at the end of six months. FromProject Gutenberg Indeed, it seems to be an "inherentvice," in unsanctified nature to endeavour by the pressure of physical force, to restrain obnoxious sentiments, and to propagate favourite opinions. FromProject Gutenberg From the very beginning is betrayed aninherentvicein the first idea, and a kind of irresolution in the manner of conceiving, distributing, and placing it. FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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