flaws

n. (pl.)
1. fragments 碎片。
△Lr.2.4. 287 (284): “I have fullcause of weeping,but this heart / Shall break into ahundred thousand flaws / Or ere I’ll weep.”我有充分的理由要哭，但是在我哭之前，先让我这颗心裂成了十万块碎片。
2. snowflakes 雪花。
flaws congealed: snowflakes turned to ice: smallblades of ice struck on the edges of the water in win-ter morning; (fig.) sharp bursts of passion 冰雪花，冰霰；（冬天早晨在水的边缘结成的）冰凌片儿，冰凌碴子：（比喻）激怒的爆发。
△2H. IV. 4. 4. 34:“and as sudden / As flawscongealed in the spring of day.”就像破晓时的一阵冰霰那样突然。