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

  1. N-VAR 一时的兴致;心血来潮;突发的奇想
    A whim is a wish to do or have something which seems to have no serious reason or purpose behind it, and often occurs suddenly.
    1. 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。
    2. The premium can increase at the whim of the insurers...
      保险公司可以随时提高保费。
    3. 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。
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双语例句

  1. 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。
  2. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
    愚蠢和无聊，荒唐和矛盾，这的确叫我觉得好笑，我自己也承认，我只要能够加以讥笑，总是加以讥笑。
  3. I have not been used to submit to any person's whims.
    任何人玩什么花巧，我都不会屈服。
  4. 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。
  5. The rest she had for food and her own whims.
    剩下的钱她用来吃饭和买一些自己喜欢的东西。
  6. You are alone in daring to speak to me like this leonardo! Whims you say.
    你是唯一敢这么跟我说话的人，莱奥纳多！你居然敢说我是“怪念头”。
  7. 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。
  8. That makes the economy less vulnerable to the whims of market speculators who have triggered serious financial crises elsewhere.
    这使其经济不大会受到曾在其他地方导致严重金融危机的市场投机风潮的危害。
  9. When you're subject to the whims of a complete madman there's no saying what will happen.
    当你受到一个十足疯子的怪念头支配时，就说不准会发生什么事了。
  10. You have two choices; Get out on your own, or bend to your mate's whims.
    你有两个选择：依靠自己或者听从伴侣。
  11. But oversaving is an expensive way to guard against the whims of international capital flows and may even be counterproductive: today's crisis was fuelled by the imbalance between saving countries and spending ones.
    但在防范国际资本的流动变幻无常方面，过度储蓄是一种代价昂贵的方式，而且甚至可能产生反效果：储蓄国和消费国之间的失衡，加剧了目前的危机。
  12. 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。
  13. 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。
  14. 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。
  15. 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。
  16. 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。
  17. This in turn leads to more mistrust and unrest at the club as the constant revolution of indulgences and whims continues.
    这依次导致了俱乐部内部更多的不信任和不安，于是持续的放任和反复无常继续着。
  18. 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”。
  19. An inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires.
    无力阻止幻想与愿望。
  20. It's part of her agent's job to indulge her whims.
    她的经纪人工作的一部分就是迁就好的异想天开。
  21. 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。
  22. 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。
  23. 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！
  24. You may think that things like cutouts or pop-ups will do this for you and thus make you stand out, or you may think they just look like designer whims that add cost.
    你可能认为许多事情像切口或者弹出窗口将为你做这些因此也使你脱颖而出。否则你可能认为他们只是像设计师突发奇想，增加成本。
  25. 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。
  26. You might have to tolerate the whims of a mercurial tycoon but you will observe first-hand how to do it.
    你可能不得不忍受一个多变大佬的突发奇想，但你会获得关于如何做的第一手观察。
  27. Never bowing to the whims of ephemeral fashion, we have always held on to solid and lasting values.
    决不屈从于古怪而短暂的时尚，我们始终紧紧坚持可靠与持久的价值。
  28. Indulge your aeronautical whims.
    尽管纵容你的飞天奇想吧。
  29. 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。
  30. 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。
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