A WORD, A WORLD
whim
释义
- n.
- 心血来潮；一时的兴致；突发的奇想
- 网络
- 怪念头；幻想；冲动
展开详细释义
n.
1.忽起的念头,一时的兴致;奇想,怪想;任性
2.怪念头
3.狂想;幻想
4.冲动;一时的高兴
5.马等毛病
6.卷扬机
7.轻微恶习
8.辘卢
9.【矿物】采矿辘轳;绞盘;绞车
词形变化
复数：whims
在例句中理解 34 句
Andy must tend to her every whim without question and with the utmost haste for fear of the retribution she might receive from her boss.
安迪必须倾向于她的每一次心血来潮，毫无疑问，与最匆忙为报复她可能收到来自她的老板。
On a whim I ask how much his jeans cost.
出于一时的好奇，我问他身上穿的牛仔裤多少钱。
In these days of my leisure, it was perhaps the mere whim to collect them which had come upon me.
在我悠闲的那些日子，也许是因为一时的兴致，我要把产生在我心里的幻想收集起来。
On a whim, he decided to take a trip around the country to look up nearly a dozen old girlfriends.
一天他突发奇想，决定四处走走，去看看他那些接近一打的旧时女友。
Elennor, even then, was not the kind of wife who bowed to her husband's whims, and her husband's whim was to climb a certain mountain.
即使在那时，埃莉诺也不属于随和丈夫一时兴致的那一类妻子，她丈夫当时的兴致是爬山。
So on a whim my viola-playing girlfriend and I decided to put a quartet together.
一时冲动，我和我那拉中提琴的闺密决定组建一个四重奏组。
Because at the whim of the king, or for that matter of parliament, we can name you or you to give up your property or to give up your life .
专制的国王或者议会可以随心所欲地让你，你或者你放弃你的财产甚至生命权。
The authorities seem to shut things down on a whim and they don't give you any advance warning of their actions . '
当局似乎是一时兴起就把这些地方关了，而且他们不会事先警告你他们要采取行动。
For smoking cessation without adequate mental preparation and physical preparation, whim camel began to think of quitting.
对戒烟不作充分的思想准备和物质准备，心血来潮般地想到戒烟就开始。
For just a while, through partaking of the whim and richness of the season, life takes on an extraordinary hue, one of sweetness and safety.
一会儿，经由参加季节的异想天开和丰厚，生活承担一种非凡颜色，一个甜和安全。
It is not rare to see Federer be completely out of the point, then suddenly turn the tables at whim and hit a winner.
经常会发生这样的情况，你看着觉得这一分他已经彻底没戏了，突然他就反戈一击，一个致胜球让你目瞪口呆。
As the head of a large organization, he was surrounded by people who were prepared to respond to his every whim.
作为一家大公司的主管，凡他兴之所至，拥簇在他周围的人都恭候着响应。
She knew now that she wasn't just a leaf that depended on every whim of the wind, but that she was part of the universe.
她知道现在她不只是一片依赖于风的一时兴致的树叶了，她成为宇宙的一部分。
It means learning to enter and exit in response to predefined signals rather than jumping in and out on a whim.
就是根据提前设置好的信号进场，出场，而不是冲动地进进出出。
It would be a difficult thing if you were instantly manifesting every whim or every misaligned thought.
如果你立即彰显每一个心血来潮或每一个未对齐的思想，那将是一件很辛苦的事。
The nice thing about websites is, as a moonlighting thing, you can write as often as you want, on a whim.
在网站上发文章有一点好处，就像做兼职，你要突然有什么想法，随时都能写下来。
On a whim I walked the length of the train: Nearly all the computers were Apples.
我一时心血来潮从车头走到了车尾，发现几乎所有的电脑都是苹果的。
Johnson learned about the contest from his son, a New York University film student, and decided to enter on a whim.
约翰逊从他在纽约大学学习影视的儿子那里了解到这场竞赛，并决定实践这个念头。
Since she was an only child, her parents pandered to her every whim.
由于她是独女，父母对她总是百依百顺。
In ancient times, when a man of royal blood married a foreign woman of royal blood, it wasn't on a romantic whim.
在古代，当一位皇族要娶异邦的皇族女子为妻，并不是因为浪漫的一时所想，而是外交政策的一部分。
In the past, he says, getting the deed would have taken days, and might have depended on the whim of a civil servant.
他说，在过去要拿到地契得花好几天时间，并且还可能得视公务员的心情而定。
Backers of the new trade agreement retort that the CBI depends on the whim of the American government and can be rescinded at any time.
新贸易协定的支持者们则反驳说，CBI只是美国政府一时冲动的产物，任何时候都有可能被废除。
Your Inner Being would want you to fulfill every wish and whim that you could identify.
你的内在想要你完成你能确定的每一个希望和冲动（突发奇想）。
Between ourselves, I think he's delighted by this whim of mine, for it'll get me out of Paris for a while and help to shut his family up.
说实在的，我想他对我突然要离开巴黎一段时间的想法一定觉得很高兴，这样也可以使他家里少说些闲话。
These spiritual selves can then take you on a journey throughout the Universe, going at a whim to any place you desire.
然后这些分身——神性自己，带你遨游宇宙间，在一时兴致下到任何你想去的地方。
I shall die after I have made my confession. When it's over, you are to dress me in these things. It is the whim of a dying woman.
我做了忏悔以后就要死了，那时候你就用这些东西替我穿戴上：这是一个垂死女人的化妆打扮。
They seem to be able to change the rules of the game at whim.
他们好像能够随意改变比赛规则。
One day, the lion was seized by a whim to be the king, and he went into the forest.
一天，狮子突然心血来潮想称王，便走到森林里去。
Moreover, there is always a danger that freedoms extended at the whim of a ruler can be withdrawn.
而且，统治者心血来潮赐予的自由说收回就收回，这个危险始终存在。
That suggestion was no whim of the moment.
那个建议可不是一时的突发奇想。
We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco.
我们多少有些心血来潮地决定乘船去摩洛哥。
Using a treeview to represent arbitrary objects organized in an arbitrary fashion at the whim of a programmer is asking for big trouble when it comes to usability.
程序员一时兴起以一种武断的方式来采用树形视图表现随意的对象，在可用性方面会遇到很大的问题。
On arrival, she buys a glass factory on a whim, and challenges him to transport a church built entirely of glass by boat from Sydney 250 miles up the coast.
到达目的地后，她突发奇想买了一个玻璃厂，并向他挑战，让他用船沿着 250 英里长的海岸线从悉尼运来建造一整座玻璃教堂。
An idle whim, I fear, sir,' was my answer; `or else an idle whim is going to spirit me away.
“恐怕是一种无聊的奇想，先生，”这是我的回答，“不然就是一种无聊的奇想又要诱使我走开。