whimsy
英 [ˈwɪmzi] 美 [ˈhwɪmzi, ˈwɪm-]

n.

怪念头；异想天开；怪脾气；与众不同的幽默感

变形

复数：whimsies

英英释义

whimsy[ 'hwimzi ]

• n.
  • an odd or fanciful or capricious idea

    "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"

    同义词：notionwhimwhimsey

  • the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment

    同义词：flightinessarbitrarinesswhimsicalitywhimseycapriciousness

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. He had a whimsy about flying to the moon.
   他有个想飞上月球的怪念头。
2. Some show cars are pure whimsy, confections dreamed up by young designers at play.
   展出的车型中有些纯属异想天开，只是年轻设计师们闲来无事的凭空想像。
3. We marvel at the whimsy of the devastation.
   我们对灾难的反复无常感到吃惊。

权威例句

WHIMSY
Whimsy.
Reframing the Whimsy Garden Project
A hundred million acts of whimsy?
Whimsy and misunderstanding of gf–gc theory: A comment on Guilford.
A gene by any other name: does whimsy matter?
A tale of too witty? Using whimsy to name fringe genes
Real Business Cycle Theory: Wisdom or Whimsy?
Real business-cycle theory : Wisdom or whimsy?
"Icons of Piety, Images of Whimsy: Asian Terra-cottas from the Walter-Grounds Collection"