whimsy

noun

1. 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

1. 奇思异想;不同寻常的行为
   Whimsy is behaviour which is unusual, playful, and unpredictable, rather than having any serious reason or purpose behind it.

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. When it comes to love stories, the new South Korean teleplays no longer use the distress card; instead, they intersperse them with whimsy and romantic punch lines.
   至于爱情故事，新的韩剧不再走悲情路线，而是融入了奇妙与浪漫。
4. 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。
5. But perhaps most appealing is the whimsy that suffuses the store.
   但最迷人的或许是店内弥漫的奇趣之风。
6. 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。
7. Both the characters and the teeming backgrounds, with all their opportunities for dramatic lighting setups, were color-scripted to maintain consistency and a persistent sense of whimsy and fun.
   这些人物的特性及丰富的背景和鲜明的灯光布置，都色彩鲜明的保持了奇幻与乐趣的连贯性和持久性。
8. For Joe and me the hikes took the place of the old adventures as an outlet for a playful imagination, which turned increasingly to whimsy and burlesque.
   远足代替了我和乔以前的冒险活动，继续提供编造笑料的平台。
9. As your garden grows, the flags will disappear a bit among the leaves but will still add a little colorful whimsy to your garden.
   随着作物的生长，小旗子们会渐渐隐没在绿叶间；但它们仍会是你的花园里的靓丽风景。
10. 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。
11. But in real life, luck and whimsy only take you so far.
    但是在现实生活中，幸运和奇想只会离你好远。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. Don George ( Editor, Lonely Planet): I think families who have a real sense of whimsy and fantasy are likely to love Treesort.
    唐·乔治（《寂寞星球》编辑）：我想那些喜欢异想天开的家庭有可能会喜欢树屋度假村。
15. Americans have 'a strong taste for slapstick in various forms, and substitute riposte and banter for irony or whimsy, which they tend not. to understand.
    美国人对各种形式的闹剧非常感兴趣，用机敏的回答和玩笑来代替他们所不懂的讽刺和诙谐。
16. 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。
17. On the whole, I really enjoyed this space for the pure quirk and whimsy of it.
    从整体上来说，我真的非常享受这个纯净同时充满新奇理念的空间。
18. 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。
19. Some show cars are pure whimsy, confections dreamed up by young designers at play.
    展出的车型中有些纯属异想天开，只是年轻设计师们闲来无事的凭空想像。
20. Rosch states that human categorisation "should not be considered the arbitrary product of historical accident or of whimsy but rather the result of psychological principles of categorisation".
    Rosch发现人类的分类不是杂乱无章的奇特的历史产物，而是分类上的心理原则的结果。
21. 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。
22. The three stages of her life a daughter of Taoist, a wife of whimsy and a common but great mother have reflected her characters and personalities.
    她所经历的人生三个阶段道家的女儿，妙想夫人及平凡又伟大的母亲折射出她的性格特征与人格魅力。

noun

1. the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
   1. I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory

   Synonym:    flightinessarbitrarinesswhimsicalitywhimseycapriciousness

2. an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
   1. the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories
   2. he had a whimsy about flying to the moon
   3. whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it

   Synonym:    notionwhimwhimsey