playthings

英 [ˈpleɪθɪŋz]

美 [ˈpleɪˌθɪŋz]

n.  玩物; 玩乐对象; 玩具
plaything的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 玩具；供玩耍的东西
  Aplaythingis a toy or other object that a child plays with.
  1. ...an untidy garden scattered with children's playthings.
     到处散落着玩具的凌乱的花园
• N-COUNT 玩物；被玩弄的人
  If you say that someone is treating you as aplaything, you think that they are using you for their amusement or advantage, and do not care about you.
  1. ...an unfaithful husband who treated women as playthings...
     把女人当玩物的不忠丈夫
  2. He would not allow anyone to make him into a political plaything for their own ends.
     他不会允许任何人为了达到其自身目的把他变成政治玩物。

双语例句

• The learning and morality the school had given me were just jokes, playthings for people with full stomachs and time to spare.
  学校里教给我的本事与道德都是笑话，都是吃饱了没事的玩艺。
• Returning boomerangs were used only in eastern and western Australia as playthings, in tournament competition, and by hunters to imitate hawks for driving flocks of game birds into nets.
  可飞回的飞标曾在东澳大利亚及西澳大利亚流行，有时作为玩具，用于比赛，有时猎手用它仿真飞鹰，以驱逐鸟群，使之进入网里。
• Life's play is swift, Life's playthings fall behind one by one and are forgotten.
  生命的游戏一下子就结束，生命的玩具一件件遗落在后面，然后都被忘记掉。
• I used to get them new playthings to keep them quiet.
  我过去常给他们买些新玩具使他们保持安静。
• He investigated insects, tree bark, leaves, ferns, seeds, and the like and made all of them his precious playthings.
  他曾调查过的昆虫，树皮，树叶，蕨类植物，种子，以及类似，并提出所有的人是他的贵重玩具。
• The results support an earlier study at Texas A& M University, with vervet monkeys, which also showed a distinct preference among male monkeys for "masculine" playthings.
  这项结果支持了之前德克萨斯农工大学的一项研究。那项研究是用长尾猴做的实验，实验结果同样表明了公猴子对“男性化”玩具有着明显的偏好。
• Studies have shown that girls 'career ambitions can be heavily influenced by their playthings.
  研究显示，女孩的职业抱负在很大程度上会受到玩具的影响。
• When a child takes apart his toys, have him put them back together again to help satisfy his learning curiosity as well as to teach him respect for his playthings.
  当玩具被孩子分解时，父母可以劝孩子将其重组回原来的样子，满足孩子想要了解玩具构造的心理，同时学会重视东西。
• Research on the Problems and Strategy of Infants 'Playthings Choice and Use
  幼儿家庭玩具选择与使用问题及对策研究
• We don't send playthings!'cried Catherine, her pride overcoming her shame.
  “我们不送玩意儿，”凯瑟琳叫着，她的骄傲征服了她的羞耻。