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　

GRE

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
  1. I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory
  Synonym:flightinessarbitrarinesswhimsicalitywhimseycapriciousness
• 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

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。