whimsy
英 [ˈwɪmzi]
美 [ˈwɪmzi]
n. 怪念头; 古怪可笑的举动; 吊儿郎当; 随心所欲
复数：whimsies
BNC.33132 / COCA.19674
牛津词典
noun
- 怪念头；古怪可笑的举动；吊儿郎当；随心所欲
a way of thinking or behaving, or a style of doing sth that is unusual and not serious, in a way that is either amusing or annoying
柯林斯词典
- 奇思异想;不同寻常的行为
Whimsyis behaviour which is unusual, playful, and unpredictable, rather than having any serious reason or purpose behind it.
英英释义
noun
- the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
- I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory
- 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
双语例句
- Vintage cafe curtains in a graphic floral pattern add whimsy.
古典风格的带有生动花纹的窗帘如锦上添花。 - It reminds me of Japanese craftwork, and has great scale and a whimsy that I love.
它让我想起了日本的工艺品，我将它们比较了一下，两种我都很喜欢。 - Gaze at the vivid yellows, blues, and psychedelic swirls of a single emperor angelfish and you'll sense the whimsy of evolution.
瞧瞧那“皇帝神仙鱼”（emperorangelfish）身上鲜艳的黄与蓝，还有迷幻般的漩涡，你就能感受到生物进化的无奇不有了。 - Miss Lemon, of Salford, Greater Manchester, soon forgot about her act of whimsy, eventually marrying and having a child herself.
大曼彻斯特郡索尔福德市的Lemon小姐，很快就忘了她的一时兴起之举，后来她嫁为人妇，也有了自己的孩子。 - Merriam-Webster's president, John Morse, said "w00t" was an ideal choice because it blends whimsy and new technology.
《韦氏大词典》总裁约翰•莫斯说，“w00t”一词既新奇，又体现了新技术，无疑是今年年度词汇的最佳选择。 - The former Fed chairman William McChesney Martin's famous line that the role of the central bank is to take away the punch bowl just as the party is getting good has lost its whimsy.
前美联储主席威廉•麦克切斯尼•马丁（WilliamMcChesneyMartin）有一句名言：央行的作用是在聚会渐入佳境的时候，端走宾治盆。这句话已不再离奇。 - These days, the spirit of in-jokes and whimsy lives on, but it has moved to new addresses: video games and movies& especially movies on DVD.
现如今，玩笑和搞怪精神犹在，但我们更多的是在电子游戏和电影DVD中见到这些彩蛋。 - Film, TV and Sichuan Opera "marriage", this is purely a Chinese audience according to their own aesthetic needs and artistic logic and whimsy.
电影、电视与川剧联姻，这纯粹是中国观众按照自己的审美需要和艺术逻辑而产生的奇思妙想。 - Far from telling us anything about doodling, it tells us the French have a babyish approach to work and a taste for arty whimsy.
它讲的不是涂鸦，而是告诉我们法国人工作方法幼稚，假装喜欢艺术。 - But those impulses can also strip a language of its wit, whimsy, and play, not to mention its capacity to accommodate new concepts and usages.
然而，这样做也会将智慧、幽默感和趣味性从姓名当中剥离。同时，姓名对新观念和新用法的适应力和包容力也会丧失殆尽，这就更不用说了。