whims

英 [wɪmz]

美 [wɪmz]

n.  心血来潮; 一时的兴致; 突发的奇想
whim的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 一时的兴致;心血来潮;突发的奇想
  Awhimis a wish to do or have something which seems to have no serious reason or purpose behind it, and often occurs suddenly.
  1. We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco...
     我们多少有点心血来潮，决定航海去摩洛哥。
  2. The premium can increase at the whim of the insurers...
     保险公司可以随时提高保费。
  3. Lately, the president has been sacking and picking new ministers at whim.
     最近，总统一时兴起频频解雇旧部长，选任新部长。

双语例句

• Success in this job requires anticipating the whims of the public.
  这项工作的成功需要预料到公众的兴之所至。
• You may think that things like cutouts or pop-ups will do this for you and thus make you stand out, or you may think they just look like designer whims that add cost.
  你可能认为许多事情像切口或者弹出窗口将为你做这些因此也使你脱颖而出。否则你可能认为他们只是像设计师突发奇想，增加成本。
• But oversaving is an expensive way to guard against the whims of international capital flows and may even be counterproductive: today's crisis was fuelled by the imbalance between saving countries and spending ones.
  但在防范国际资本的流动变幻无常方面，过度储蓄是一种代价昂贵的方式，而且甚至可能产生反效果：储蓄国和消费国之间的失衡，加剧了目前的危机。
• When you're subject to the whims of a complete madman there's no saying what will happen.
  当你受到一个十足疯子的怪念头支配时，就说不准会发生什么事了。
• Furthermore, it is harder to ignore them when they cannot be banished psychologically to another part of town or excused as the whims of aliens groups-when they have to acknowledges as "part of us".
  此外，当他们不能在心理上被驱逐到城填的另一部分或被当作外星人的怪念头的时候是很难把它忽略掉的。因为他们已经成为“我们的一部分”。
• It's part of her agent's job to indulge her whims.
  她的经纪人工作的一部分就是迁就好的异想天开。
• Often the tenant had to commit degrading acts just to satisfy his landlord's whims.
  佃户经常被迫做一些下作的事以满足地主的低级趣味。
• Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
  愚蠢和无聊，荒唐和矛盾，这的确叫我觉得好笑，我自己也承认，我只要能够加以讥笑，总是加以讥笑。
• This in turn leads to more mistrust and unrest at the club as the constant revolution of indulgences and whims continues.
  这依次导致了俱乐部内部更多的不信任和不安，于是持续的放任和反复无常继续着。
• You have two choices; Get out on your own, or bend to your mate's whims.
  你有两个选择：依靠自己或者听从伴侣。