中英互译
whim
英 /wɪm/美 /wɪm/
基本释义
- n.一时的兴致,突发的奇想
复数whims
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词语例句
一时的兴致,突发的奇想n.
We bought the house on a whim.
我们一时冲动买了这所房子。
She hires and fires people at whim.
她随心所欲地雇用人和解雇人。
- He was forced to pander to her every whim.她每次心血来潮他都不得不依随她。来自《牛津词典》
- 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。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- A still picture could only imply the existence of time, while time in a novel passed at the whim of the reader."一张静止的照片只是暗示了时间的存在,而小说中的时间则随着读者的幻想而流逝。
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词义分布
奇想
56.8%
突发奇想
37.8%
怪念头
5.4%
英英释义
- n.a sudden desire
- n.an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
词源
- whim心血来潮缩写自whimsy.