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whim是什么意思

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whim 是什么意思

名词复数:whims   

中文翻译与英英解释

n.
1.忽起的念头,一时的兴致;奇想,怪想;任性。
2.【矿物】采矿辘轳;绞盘;绞车。
短语和例子
full of whims (and fancies) 异想天开的;狂热的;任性的。 take [have] a whim for reading 一时兴起读起书来。 while the whim lasts 在有兴致的时候;兴之所至。
an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"
同义词:notion, whimsy, whimsey,

a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse"
同义词:caprice, impulse,

例句与用法

1.She indulges his every whim .
她纵容他的每个怪念头。

2.It was only my whim .
那不过是我一时的高兴就是了。

3.Oh, don't you understand that it isn't a passing whim ?
啊,难道你不明白这不是一个昙花一现的念头?

4.Dorian's whims are laws to everybody, except himself .
道林的怪念头对旁人来说都是法律,就他自己可以例外。

5.But is it not possible to control the human factor by science--the opposite of whim ?
那么,人的因素能否由妄想的反面--科学来控制呢?

6.The zone boundaries zigzag capriciously according to the whims of the local population .
按照当地居民的意愿,时区界线被划分得弯弯曲曲。

7.He had merely been a sailor from whim and a desire to spite his friends .
他之所以当了一名水手,只是为了他的怪癖,并想和他的朋友们赌一口气。

8.He was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world .
只要全无人情味的政府一声令下,他随时都可以被调到世界上任何地方去。

9.Elennor, even then, was not the kind of wife who bowed to her husband's whims, and her husband's whim was to climb a certain mountain .
即使在那时,埃莉诺也不属于随和丈夫一时兴致的那一类妻子,她丈夫当时的兴致是爬山。

10.He had a sudden whim to take a midnight walk
他有一个突然的怪念头,半夜里散步。

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