過つは ― fallible

To err is human, to forgive divine.


過ちは人の常、赦すは神の業、とは18世紀のAlexander Popeによる言葉です。

"fallible"とは、過ちを犯しやすい、誤りを犯しがちな、という意味で用いられます。


To those of us who are not climate scientists, it may come down to this: How can we be so certain what the climate will be like a century from now if you can't get a decent weather forecast more than two weeks ahead? In the end, isn't climate change just too complex? True, weather forecasters are fallible, and there is no planet out there similar to Earth so we can truly gauge the effect human activity is having on our climate. But climate researchers are increasingly confident of their models and simulations. Besides, some argue, predicting the weather is tougher than predicting the climate, and scientists have been working on perfecting climate models for more than a century.
(Christian Science Monitor. 1997.)