whim
[wim]
n.一时的兴致, 奇想
例句与用法:
He dotes on his grandchildren and indulges their every whim.
他溺爱自己的孙辈,并且满足他们的任何想法。
She indulges his every whim.
她对他的怪念头有求必应。
It's only a passing whim.
这只不过是一闪之念。
They seem ready to indulge his every whim.
他们简直惯得他随心所欲。
n.[C][U]
1. 奇想, 怪念头; 幻想
She is always full of whims and fancies.
她老是充满怪念头。
2. 突然的念头, 一时的兴致
He had a sudden whim to go sailing today.
今天他突然想要去航海。
whim
名词复数:whims
词义辨析:
同义:
n.幻想; 奇想; 反复无常
fancy
notion
fad
caprice
同义参见:
kink
impulse
conceit
prank1
eccentricity
whim[hwim]n.1.■一时的兴致,心血来潮;怪念头,奇想;狂想;幻想2.■【采矿】绞盘vi.1.■心血来潮地向往近义词caprice变形vi.whimmedwhimming
whimwhim[(h)wim]n.1.■忽起的念头, 一时的兴致; 怪念头; 任性2.■采矿辘轳; 绞盘; 绞车
继承用法whim-whamn.1.■古怪的装饰品, 奇装异服; 怪想; [pl.]精神失常whimmy[ˈhwɪmɪ]adj.1.■多奇想的, 古怪的
noun
- a sudden desire or change of mind, especially one that is unusual or unexplained
突然产生的念头;一闪而过的念头;异想天开的念头;怪念头
she bought it on a whim.
她一时心血来潮地买了它。
[mass noun]he appeared and disappeared at whim.
他随心所欲地现身或消失。 - (archaic)a windlass for raising ore or water from a mine
(古)(提升矿石或打水用的)绞绳滚筒,绞盘
- late 17th cent.: of unknown origin. Sense 2 (mid 18th cent.) is a transferred use
whim
名词 whim:
a sudden desire
an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
whim
■"On a sudden whim, they left for England."
"突然地,他们前往英国。 "
■The reason for these numerous trips is because relatives do not arrive in a batch but arrive singly, randomly, coming and going at their whim, totally be yond prediction and defying conjecture.
(因为亲戚们不是同一拨来的。他们往往分期分批,无计划、无组织,即兴而来,乘兴而去,令人无法预测,不可捉摸。)
■9 see joke: Be seized by a whim of a landlord, let him the Greek orthodoxy Catholic father of that village and Judaic classics division rejoin.
9看笑话: 一个地主心血来潮,让他那个村的希腊正教神甫和犹太经师答辩。
■"Not one of us ever imagined players could be given a contract and then be free to walk away at a whim, no matter how many years were still remaining.
“我们无法想象一个球员在签署一份合同后可以一时兴起就甩手而去,不论合同期限还剩多少年。
■"I kind of guessed that," I said, shrugging. My spur-of-the-moment whim hadn't come with a plan intact. "Maybe I'll take them to Dowling's."
“我有个想法,”我耸耸肩,说道。我还没有打定如何寻求刺激的主意。“我可以把它们带去给道林看看。”
■"After all those years of indecision, I simply acted on a whim.
“那么多年没有做一下的决定,我在一夕之间下定了决心。
■On a whim, he decided to take a trip around the country to look up nearly a dozen old girlfriends.
一天他突发奇想,决定四处走走,去看看他那些接近一打的旧时女友。
■A day, wife be seized by a whim, act out of normal behaviour, put on affectedly sweet affectedly sweet sound, scatter arrogant say: Husband!
一天,老婆心血来潮,一反常态,装出嗲嗲的声音,撒骄的说:老公!
■1.Once we fall, however slightly, into immoderation, momentum gathers and we can be lost to whim.
一旦我们失去节制,不管多么轻微,惯性便形成了,我们就有可能在奇想中迷失。
■Whim: a sudden or capricious idea; a fancy
一时的兴致,突然的念头
■As America's Founding Fathers well knew, the only thing that will prevent debasement of a currency is to base it on gold and/or silver which are incapable of being produced at a politician's whim.
两个人的爱情在多哈霍启刚高调赞美郭晶晶以及两个人的“阿拉伯情侣照”后大白于天下!
■In order to protect privacy, don't put personal information on the Internet on a whim.
为保护个人隐私,不要想在网上任意留个人资料。
■Every whim and caprice which enters his bean.
产生在他脑子里的每一个怪念头及奇想。
■He had a sudden whim to go sailing today.
今天他突然想要去航海。
■Today's shopping was nothing but a whim.
今天出去购物纯属心血来潮。
■He has beeb seized by a whim tonight and is writing several short poems at one sitting.
今晚他心血来潮,一口气写下了好几首短诗。
■He has been seized by a whim tonight and is writing several short poems at one sitting.
今晚他心血来潮,一口气写下了好几首短诗。
■In my experience, even if a mage is being focused, he can still drop several thousand damage on a whim.
从我的经验看,即使一个法师成为目标后,他仍然完全可以轻易的抵挡数轮进攻。
■He whim the ball into the back of the net
他一用力把球打到球网的後面去了
■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。
■They particularly object to schools' tendency to change uniforms on a whim, which means that costs cannot be cut by buying second-hand or dressing younger siblings in hand-me-downs.
他们尤其反对学校时不时心血来潮地换校服,因为这就意味着不能给孩子买二手的校服或让他们穿兄弟姐妹的衣服来节省开支。
■They seem ready to indulge (ie satisfy) his every whim
他们简
■They seem ready to indulge his every whim.
他们简直惯得他随心所欲。
■They seem ready to indulge(ie satisfy)his every whim.
他们简直惯着他随心所欲.
■They seem ready to indulge (ie satisfy) his every whim.
他们简直惯着他随心所欲。
■At a whim he may change the composition of his body, trading strengthfor agility and vice versa.
他可以改变自身的组成,使自己变得更有力又或是更灵活。
■He panders to her every whim.
他对她的性子百依百顺。
■He bought the jacket on a whim, having seen it by chance in a shop window.
他无意中在商店橱窗台看到那件夹克,一时心血来潮就买了下来。
■He dotes on his grandchildren and indulges their every whim.
他溺爱自己的孙辈,并且满足他们的任何想法。
■His mother spoiled him, indulging his every whim.
他的妈妈溺爱他,总是满足他的各种要求。
■A bold, momentary whim flared in his mind, with his sight falling at sister's jady and angelic face, fair and tender.
他看着姐姐清秀、水嫩、白皙、天使般俊俏的脸庞,脑中忽然蹦出一个大胆的臆想,犹如火花般一闪而过。
■"It may," he says, "have been uttered as a whim, in jest.
他说:“可能只是一时兴起的戏言。”
■But along with the books I read for work, following my resolution to “Read better” and “Read at whim,” I let myself read books just because I feel like it.
但是除了为工作书籍,为了遵照自己的”更会阅读“、“兴致阅读”的决心,我会纯粹为了喜欢而读一本书。
■As president, he can dissolve parliament on a whim.
作为总统,他可以随意解散议会。
■You can choose your markets on a whim or pause to think whether to trade stocks, futures, or options.
你可以随便选择一个市场去交易,或者是停下来想想,股票、期货或期权,选择哪个呢。
■A getaway could be on your mind, so if your time is your own, follow a whim and an adventure will be sure to follow.
你心中的一扇门以及打开,如果你拥有自己的时间那么一个妙想或者一次冒险将开始。
■You owe your entire being. You should, at the very least, act as personal slave. Cater to every whim.
你整个人都欠的,你应该,最起码,作他私人的奴隶。满足所有的需要。
■Slave girls prepared and served his food and drink and attended to his every whim.
侍女侍候他的饮食并满足他的各种欲望。
■Assuming you've built up a system that more or less satisfies your needs, presumably after extensive reading and auditioning, you don't want to rush into a change on a whim.
假定您已经拥有了或多或少使您满意的系统, 在广泛阅读大量的评测和试听文章之后, 您可能就不会头脑发热般的跑去购买新产品。
■the trait of acting more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment.
做任何事情不是从理性和判断出发,而是出于一时的念头。
■In fact, one whim may decide whether they will live in heaven or stay in hell.
其实,一念之间就可能决定未来在天、还是在地。
■characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable
具有奇异念头的特征的或易产生这类念头的;易冲动和不可预料的
■In hotheaded whim, he would like to ask her for an ending, if she did not has had loved him as he loves her, he at least may treat her as a common friend, no more expectation in future.
冲动的时候,很想问个究竟,如果她不曾像他爱她一样爱他,至少他可以像对待普通朋友一样对待她,不再有所期待。
■Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment's whim.
出自泰戈尔《飞鸟集》,意为:春天撒播花瓣,不是为了未来的果实,而是为了这一刹那的妄想。
■Cut do not purchase a disharmonious furniture because of temporarily be seized by a whim.
切不要因一时的心血来潮而购置一件不和谐的家具。
■Created by the capricious whim of Slaanesh, each is a unique statement of the Dark prince's particular mood and muse at the time of its creation.
创自沙历士多样的一时兴起,每个都独具形体,都是黑暗王子创造其时所感所思而化。
■So far, teacher's unions have resisted the idea of pay for performance, in part because it could be disbursed at the whim of a principal.
到目前为止,教师工会一直拒绝按照教师的表现来支付报酬,一部分是因为这种方法可能会造成校长的喜好决定一切。
■Torrential rains along the Californian coast and the Peruvian deserts have all been ascribed to the whim of El Nino.
加州海岸正在下倾盆大雨,秘鲁沙漠也归因于厄尔尼诺的反复无常。
■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。
■A sudden whim to buy a cream cake.
去买奶油蛋糕的一个突然的怪念头,。