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English translation for "whim"

 
n.
1.忽起的念头,一时的兴致;奇想,怪想;任性。
2.【矿物】采矿辘轳;绞盘;绞车。
短语和例子
Example Sentences:
1.She indulges his every whim .
她纵容他的每个怪念头。
2.It was only my whim .
那不过是我一时的高兴就是了。
3.Oh, don't you understand that it isn't a passing whim ?
啊,难道你不明白这不是一个昙花一现的念头?
4.Dorian's whims are laws to everybody, except himself .
道林的怪念头对旁人来说都是法律,就他自己可以例外。
5.But is it not possible to control the human factor by science--the opposite of whim ?
那么,人的因素能否由妄想的反面--科学来控制呢?
6.The zone boundaries zigzag capriciously according to the whims of the local population .
按照当地居民的意愿,时区界线被划分得弯弯曲曲。
7.He had merely been a sailor from whim and a desire to spite his friends .
他之所以当了一名水手,只是为了他的怪癖,并想和他的朋友们赌一口气。
8.He was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world .
只要全无人情味的政府一声令下,他随时都可以被调到世界上任何地方去。
9.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。
10.He had a sudden whim to take a midnight walk
他有一个突然的怪念头,半夜里散步。
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