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
- 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。 - Furthermore, it is harder to ignore them when they cannot be banished psychologically to another part of town or excused as the whims of aliens groups-when they have to acknowledges as "part of us".
此外,当他们不能在心理上被驱逐到城填的另一部分或被当作外星人的怪念头的时候是很难把它忽略掉的。因为他们已经成为“我们的一部分”。 - The financial flows behind these political whims can be complicated.
这些政治愿望背后的资金流动可能很复杂。 - Dorian's whims are laws to everybody, except himself.
道林的怪念头对旁人来说都是法律,就他自己可以例外。 - They are completely subject to the whims and moods of a single superior.
他们完全受制于上司个人的一时想法和情绪。 - Without the objective principle, accounting records would be based on whims and options and subject to dispute.
失去客观性原则,会计记录将会建立在主观臆断和个人意见的基础上,并易导致争论。 - 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。 - Indulge your aeronautical whims.
尽管纵容你的飞天奇想吧。 - For most of recorded history, individual aspirations were subject to the whims of tyrants and empires.
在有历史记载的大部分时期,个人的愿望往往受制于暴君和帝国肆意翻云覆雨的狂热。 - An inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires.
无力阻止幻想与愿望。