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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。