英语释义

• 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"

• a sudden desire;

  "he bought it on an impulse"

片语

Artificial Whim人工兴致

vagary奇想；奇特行为

I Whim我突发奇想

Not Whim不一时兴起

Fashion Whim浅米黄色

Mind Whim头脑里突发奇想

strange whim怪念头

Whim Notion怪念头

fancy幻想；想象力；爱好； （赛马等体育比赛中）最被看好的人或动物；（拳击等运动的）爱好者；花式蛋糕或饼干；（16和17世纪音乐用语）幻想曲

Dad Whim爸爸心血来潮

horsesorrel whim畜力绞盘

英汉例句

• they had dined together in san francisco, and were at the ferry building, returning to oakland, when the whim came to him to show martin the 「real dirt.」

  两人刚在旧金山吃完晚饭，要回奥克兰，来到了轮渡大厦。这时布世森登心血来潮，要叫他看看「草芥之民」。

• contrast this with linux, where new kernel distributions are made available on an ad-hoc basis, and where the frequency of each linux distribution release is at the whim of the individual vendor.

  与之不同的是：linux的新内核发布是随心所欲的，linux的发行频率是基于individualvendor心血来潮的行动。

• the ritz-carlton hong kong is trying hard to cater to every whim of its 21st-century guests.

  丽思卡尔顿正想尽办法满足每一个有奇思妙想的住客的愿望。

• she knew now that she wasn’t just a leaf that depended on every whim of the wind, but that she was part of the universe.

  她知道现在她不只是一片依赖于风的一时兴致的树叶了，她成为宇宙的一部分。

• i chose the name problogger on a whim one day (i think i was watching golf or tennis and wondered out loud if there could ever be a blogger that goes pro).

  在一些幻想的时候，想到了叫他problogger（我想当我正在看高尔夫或网球时，如果这些可以成为专业的blogger，会惊讶到没有声音）这不是战略移动，但作为什么马后炮，我认为这是我做过的最好的一件事，因为problogger会成为一个小组。

• in these days of my leisure, it was perhaps the mere whim to collect them which had come upon me.

  在我悠閑的那些日子，也许是因为一时的兴致，我要把产生在我心里的幻想收集起来。

• hollywood would have us believe that medieval evil-doers were killed on whim and often in public squares for everything from slapping a soldier to stealing the king「s chickens.

  好莱坞让我们相信，中世纪的恐怖分子们总是因为一时的心血来潮而被杀害。 死刑则总是在公共的广场上进行，原因从扇了一名士兵的耳光到偷走国王的鸡肉。

• that is because mr chávez has created a personalised regime of government-by-live-television in which senior officials must interpret his every whim on pain of dismissal.

  那是因为查韦斯创造了一个私人的电视直播政府，在这样的政府里面，每位高级官员都必须冒着被免职的危险阐述自己的突发奇想。

• bagehot’s view is that they are at least as good a motive as many others, such as whim and inherited prejudice.

  而白哲特的观点却认为：电视辩论与另一些行为动机是差不多的，例如：一时的兴致与生来具有的偏见。

• an idle whim, i fear, sir,」 was my answer; `or else an idle whim is going to spirit me away.

  「恐怕是一种无聊的奇想，先生，」这是我的回答，“不然就是一种无聊的奇想又要诱使我走开。

• moreover, there is always a danger that freedoms extended at the whim of a ruler can be withdrawn.

  而且，统治者心血来潮赐予的自由说收回就收回，这个危险始终存在。

相似词

fancy幻想；想象力；爱好； （赛马等体育比赛中）最被看好的人或动物；（拳击等运动的）爱好者；花式蛋糕或饼干；（16和17世纪音乐用语）幻想曲

notion概念；见解；打算

caprice任性，反复无常；随想曲，怪想

fad时尚；一时的爱好；一时流行的狂热

eccentricity古怪；怪癖；[数] 离心率

notion概念；见解；打算

fad时尚；一时的爱好；一时流行的狂热

impulse推动

phase分阶段进行；使定相

fancy幻想；想象力；爱好； （赛马等体育比赛中）最被看好的人或动物；（拳击等运动的）爱好者；花式蛋糕或饼干；（16和17世纪音乐用语）幻想曲

kink扭结；奇想；蜷缩

caprice任性，反复无常；随想曲，怪想

conceit幻想