whim

英[wɪm]
美[wɪm]

意思解释

n. 一时的兴致;突然的念头;怪念头,奇想;幻想
vi. 心血来潮地向往

中文词源

whim 心血来潮

缩写自whimsy.

用法例句

Yet unlike much other plastic surgery it is no vanity-inspired whim .
然而与其它整形外科不同的是,它不是一时贪图虚荣的突发奇想。
But now , you have no right to expect them to bow to every whim and fancy just because selfish ego instead of common sense dominates your personality , thinking and request .
但是现在,你没有权利期望他们屈从于每一个怪念头和幻想,因为自私的自我而不是常识,主宰了你的人格、思维和需要。
You may or may not have heard before how brin and page dispensed with personal assistants and calendars , preferring to bounce through their large ly unstructured days as the whim took them , or how they disbanded an entire layer of managers to set their engineers free of almost all controls .
你或许听说过(也可能没有),布林和佩奇如何抛开了私人助手和日历,更愿意听凭一时的兴致带他们匆匆走过一个个杂乱无章的日子;或是他们如何解散了整整一个管理层,将工程师们从各种限制中解放出来。
However some modern designers are whim the aquarium tank into the interior furniture .
然而,有些现代设计师却突发奇想,把水族缸变成了室内家具。
Emotionally , it 's hard to accept that the whim of a nonentity can change history .
一个无足轻重者的突发奇想可以改变历史,从情感上讲,我们很难接受这一点。