whims
英 [wɪmz]
美 [wɪmz]
n. 心血来潮; 一时的兴致; 突发的奇想
whim的第三人称单数和复数
柯林斯词典
- N-VAR 一时的兴致;心血来潮;突发的奇想
Awhimis a wish to do or have something which seems to have no serious reason or purpose behind it, and often occurs suddenly.- We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco...
我们多少有点心血来潮,决定航海去摩洛哥。 - The premium can increase at the whim of the insurers...
保险公司可以随时提高保费。 - Lately, the president has been sacking and picking new ministers at whim.
最近,总统一时兴起频频解雇旧部长,选任新部长。
- We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco...
双语例句
- An inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires.
无力阻止幻想与愿望。 - Often the tenant had to commit degrading acts just to satisfy his landlord's whims.
佃户经常被迫做一些下作的事以满足地主的低级趣味。 - You should be the last to care about the whims of the designer-based, enterprise-library-minded, software-factory-code-generator-happy folk.
我们不应该再沉浸于基于设计器的,企业类库思想的,乐于使用软件工厂代码设计器的幻想中了。 - But they do so based on their expectations of future trends in supply and demand, not on whims.
但是他们是基于他们对未来供需趋势的预期来投资的,而不是一时兴起而为之。 - So it is not subject to the whims of foreign investors.
因此,外国投资者的反复无常不会对它造成影响。 - I don't have time to obey all those whims of yours.
我没时间一天到晚跟着你的怪念头转。 - But, I expect whims of fate consistently, How valuable a life is!
但是,我总是期待命运的奇变,生命是何等可贵呀! - Success in this job requires anticipating the whims of the public.
这项工作的成功需要预料到公众的兴之所至。 - He was very dependent on the whims and financial circumstances of his eccentric father.
他身不由己,在很大程度上被他那脾气古怪的父亲的奇思异想和经济状况左右着。 - With the reduction in foreign investments, the government will be even more a hostage to the whims of the international oil price
随着外资的减少,政府将更加受制于起伏不定的国际油价。