whims

whims

美 [hw?m] 　英 [w?m]

• n.忽起的念頭；奇想；任性；【礦】采礦轆轤
• 網絡幻想；婦女健康行動記憶研究；婦女健康倡議記憶研究(Women's Health Initiative Memory Study)

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例句

In the short term, though, the prospects of a business so dependent on the whims of politicians are bound to be uncertain.

從短期來看，的確，一項如此依賴于政客朝令夕改的產業前景終將有極大的不確定性。

This is not bad. The Fish is willing to be a part of your whims and desires, and that makes for a lasting union.

這對組合還不賴。魚兒始終希望成為你生活的一部分，你們的關系可以持久下去。

And you know, we've all - especially those of us who drink - have had whims.

你知道，我們都有過沖動-尤其是當我們喝高了的時候。

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.

即使在那時，埃莉諾也不屬于隨和丈夫一時興致的那一類妻子，她丈夫當時的興致是爬山。

The Governor, to his credit, refused to bow to this "Arronax's" whims , and told him to get out of his office.

大義凜然的地方官拒絕向這位叫做“阿羅那克斯”的混蛋低頭，把他攆出了自己的辦公室。

But I have little idea which book is to be read or looked over again at what time. It is completely subject to the whims of the moment.

什么書在什么時候再去讀再去翻，連我自己也無把握，完全要看一個時期一個時期的興趣。

Anna put up patiently with all her aunt's whims, gradually set to work on her sister's education.

安娜耐心地忍受她姨母的一切怪脾氣，按部就班地安排她妹妹的教育。

The point of publishers is not, as Connolly implies, about employing "judgments or whims" to choose which manuscripts to publish.

而出版商一方，不像康諾利那樣，通過“評判或好奇”選擇出版哪個書稿。

Bow to the whims of an ancient plague, the power to mystify and a cure of your own inner demons.

弓對古老瘟疫、力量迷惑和您自己的內在邪魔治療的異想天開。

The fault line between them was drawn by the ability of power to satisfy its whims and ignore the consequences.

她們之間那條錯誤的界線，是一個人的強力不顧后果地任意妄為的結果。

One can only shudder at the thought that the humaneness of our societies would depend on the whims of politics, culture or religion.

對于我們社會的仁慈依賴于政治、文化和對于宗教的幻想的想法，我們唯一的反應就是不寒而栗。

"The game is extremely vulnerable to the whims and interests of a small number of very rich people, " Professor Cannon adds.

“這個聯賽極易受到古怪念頭的傷害，而且只是少數富人的興趣”，加農教授補充說。

Summer has a tendency to get quickly packed with plans, but it's important to leave yourself time to indulge your whims.

夏天總是很快就計劃得滿滿的，但是，給自己時間沉迷于奇想很重要。

So there's no point trying to forecast Payton's whims, then?

所以也就沒必要預測佩頓那些一時興起的念頭啰？

The mental faculty through which whims, visions, and fantasies are summoned up; imagination, especially of a whimsical or fantastic nature.

想象力心智機能，能產生想法、幻想、想象；想象，尤指有異想天開或空想的特性的。

Rees-Jones was one of 40 security men_ 16-stone nannies hired to guard the Fayed family and pander to their whims.

里斯-瓊斯是法耶德家雇來保護家人和迎合他們的突發奇想的40名保安人員--“體重128磅的保姆”之一。

As captivating as your dominance might be, Viconia, I will not surrender my being to the whims of another again. . . be they God or drow.

就像你令人神魂顛倒的魅力，維康妮亞，我不會再度降于誘惑…不管是神還是卓爾精靈。

And yes, there will eventually be a war if the USA cannot bow to China and her whims because we owe so much money. . .

沒錯，我們欠了太多的錢…如果美國不向中國低頭，終究會招致戰爭。

Your little life of little whims and moods was admirable in its own little sphere.

你過的那種充滿了小技巧和小情緒的小生活在其自己的小范圍內是值得尊敬的。

IF EVER an industry had reason to complain about the whims of the stockmarket, it would be investment banking.

如果有一個行業有理由對股市的反復無常抱怨的話，那它應該是投資銀行業。

This has fostered the growth of a middle class that wants guarantees that its new assets are safe from the party's whims.

改革促生了一批中產階級，他們希望自己的不動產能在政黨反復無常的政策變動中保持安全。

But many of her colleagues accuse America of having pandered to Mr Bakiyev's corrupt and dictatorial whims in exchange for access to Manas.

但她的許多同事在指責她想獲取巴基耶夫獨裁和他在瑪納斯的腐敗交易。

In practice, of course, farmers will still be hostage to the whims of the collective and its often ugly human faces.

當然，實踐中農民將依然被集體所綁架，依然得面對代理集體的那些丑惡嘴臉。

Property rights have become a topic of critical interest to urban residents anxious to protect their new assets from the whims of the state.

對于城市居民而言，物權已成為重大利益的主題，他們急于保護自己的新資產免遭國家的侵犯。

You do not, I repeat, do NOT have to cater to the whims of your local PTA.

我重復聲明，你不需要去迎合你當地家庭教師協會的幻想。

Their diets vary with the whims of humans, however, and can be supplemented by the cat's own hunting successes.

家貓的飲食隨人類的想法而變，但有時也吃一些它們自己所捕獵到的食物。

Of course, this will require that you are completely honest with yourself to avoid "investing" money on short-lived whims or fancies.

當然，這要求你要完全忠實于自己，不要把錢投入到一時的心血來潮或不切實際的幻想中。

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

愚蠢和無聊，荒唐和矛盾，這的確叫我覺得好笑，我自己也承認，我只要能夠加以譏笑，總是加以譏笑。

They were impotent before ite invincible power, tragic figures subjected to the whims of the gods.

他們在不可戰勝的力量的面前無能為力，人們悲慘地服從于神的旨意。

In this matriarchal city, males had a decidedly subservient role, and most answered to the whims of females.

在這個女性統治的城市里，男性只能扮演絕對服從的角色，盡量迎合那些卓爾女性的奇思怪想。

This in turn leads to more mistrust and unrest at the club as the constant revolution of indulgences and whims continues.

這依次導致了俱樂部內部更多的不信任和不安，于是持續的放任和反復無常繼續著。

The ideas for the bicycles come from a variety of sources, including commercial bikes, historical ones and the inventor's own whims.

這些想法的自行車來自不同的來源，包括商業自行車，歷史的和發明人自己的沖動。

What company would absorb the colossal expense of having orders changed at the last second according to customers' shifting whims?

倘若滿足客戶隨時可能改變主意的要求，在改變主意的最后時刻更改訂單的話，什么樣的公司能夠承擔得起這樣的巨大代價？

It is the physical manifestation of Heaven on Earth, the realization of our highest good, the actualization of our thoughts and whims.

它是[凈土在人間]天堂在地球物質的顯現，認識到我們最高的好，實現我們一時興致的想法。

The era (when) everything goes is now gone forever. (The) government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

“什么都行的年代現在已經一去不復返。政治不再靠個人心血來潮。”肯尼亞總統齊貝吉在就職典禮上演講時提到。

Partly sheltered from the whims of fickle foreign capital, member states have been under less pressure to shape up.

在歐元的庇護下，成員國在一定程度上避開了外國資本的反復無常，結果減少了改進的壓力。

But he chose a drastic method of staving off wrinkles, a potbelly, the whims of a fickle public.

不過他選擇了一個激烈的方式來避開皺紋、大肚腩以及群眾的善變。

Migrant workers have built modern Beijing, but their communities are still subject to the whims of development.

農民工建設了現代化的北京，但他們的居住區仍在城市開發中風雨飄搖。

That makes the economy less vulnerable to the whims of market speculators who have triggered serious financial crises elsewhere.

這使其經濟不大會受到曾在其他地方導致嚴重金融危機的市場投機風潮的危害。

Here's the weird thing about breasts: They are a point of obsession, vulnerable to the mercurial whims of mass culture.

關于乳房的一件怪事在于：它們既是大眾癡迷的對象，又容易受到通俗文化變幻無常式的傷害。