follies

英 [ˈfɒliz]

美 [ˈfɑliz]

n.  愚蠢; 愚笨; 愚蠢的想法(或事情、行为); (常见于旧时乡间豪宅花园中的)装饰性建筑
folly的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 愚蠢;荒唐
  If you say that a particular action or way of behaving isfollyor afolly, you mean that it is foolish.
  1. It's sheer folly to build nuclear power stations in a country that has dozens of earthquakes every year.
     在每年会发生几十次地震的国家建造核电站简直就是愚蠢至极。
  2. ...a reminder of the follies of war.
     提醒人们战争之愚蠢的东西
• (尤指旧时英国花园等中的)装饰性建筑
  Afollyis a small tower or other unusual building that is built as a decoration in a large garden or park, especially in Britain in former times.

英英释义

noun

• a revue with elaborate costuming

双语例句

• Youth with its fumbling and follies, its eagerness and questioning, is the eternal hope of mankind.
  青春充满着幼稚而愚笨的探索，充满着渴望和质疑，它是人类社会不竭的希望。
• The mouth of a fool boils forth follies. ( informal) having or revealing stupidity.
  蠢人嘴里说出来的尽是蠢话。（非正式）愚蠢或者显示出愚蠢。
• The writings of Swift mocked the follies of his age.
  斯威夫特的作品嘲弄了他那个时代的愚人。
• Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that they themselves commit.
  爱情是盲目的，恋人看不见自己做的傻事。
• "You are too old for such follies," said Mother.
  母亲说：“你这样大了，不应再做这种荒唐事”。
• Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
  记得年轻时所做蠢事的人是幸福的。
• Most of all, it warns me to keep myself free from common follies.
  最重要的是，它时刻警醒我摆脱普遍的愚蠢。
• We will not trouble ourselves here with the names and follies, the crimes and intrigues, of its tale of emperors.
  这里我们不谈关于帝王们的名号、昏庸、罪恶和阴谋等等的故事。
• I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself.
  别人的愚蠢和过错我本应该赶快忘掉，却偏偏忘不掉；人家得罪了我，我也忘不掉。
• They had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.
  他们不仅具有了与其他老年人一模一样的所有毛病，而且因为那可怕的永生不死的未来，他们还会出现更多的毛病。