whim
美 [hwɪm]
英 [wɪm] 
- n.心血来潮;一时的兴致;突发的奇想
- 网络怪念头;幻想;冲动
词形变化
复数:whims 同义词
英汉双解
1. | 心血来潮;一时的兴致;突发的奇想a sudden wish to do or have sth, especially when it is sth unusual or unnecessary |
| He was forced to pander to her every whim . 她每次心血来潮他都不得不依随她。 |
| We bought the house on a whim . 我们一时冲动买了这所房子。 |
| My duties seem to change daily at the whim of the boss. 我的职责似乎随着老板的兴致每天改变。 |
| the whims of fashion 时尚的变化多端 |
| She hires and fires people at whim . 她随心所欲地雇用人和解雇人。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
As the head of a large organization, he was surrounded by people who were prepared to respond to his every whim.
作为一家大公司的主管,凡他兴之所至,拥簇在他周围的人都恭候着响应。
It is not rare to see Federer be completely out of the point, then suddenly turn the tables at whim and hit a winner.
经常会发生这样的情况,你看着觉得这一分他已经彻底没戏了,突然他就反戈一击,一个致胜球让你目瞪口呆。
For just a while, through partaking of the whim and richness of the season, life takes on an extraordinary hue, one of sweetness and safety.
一会儿,经由参加季节的异想天开和丰厚,生活承担一种非凡颜色,一个甜和安全。
For smoking cessation without adequate mental preparation and physical preparation, whim camel began to think of quitting.
对戒烟不作充分的思想准备和物质准备,心血来潮般地想到戒烟就开始。
The authorities seem to shut things down on a whim and they don't give you any advance warning of their actions . '
当局似乎是一时兴起就把这些地方关了,而且他们不会事先警告你他们要采取行动。
She knew now that she wasn't just a leaf that depended on every whim of the wind, but that she was part of the universe.
她知道现在她不只是一片依赖于风的一时兴致的树叶了,她成为宇宙的一部分。
On a whim, he decided to take a trip around the country to look up nearly a dozen old girlfriends.
一天他突发奇想,决定四处走走,去看看他那些接近一打的旧时女友。
Because at the whim of the king, or for that matter of parliament, we can name you or you to give up your property or to give up your life .
专制的国王或者议会可以随心所欲地让你,你或者你放弃你的财产甚至生命权。
In these days of my leisure, it was perhaps the mere whim to collect them which had come upon me.
在我悠闲的那些日子,也许是因为一时的兴致,我要把产生在我心里的幻想收集起来。
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。
It means learning to enter and exit in response to predefined signals rather than jumping in and out on a whim.
就是根据提前设置好的信号进场,出场,而不是冲动地进进出出。
On a whim I ask how much his jeans cost.
出于一时的好奇,我问他身上穿的牛仔裤多少钱。
So on a whim my viola-playing girlfriend and I decided to put a quartet together.
一时冲动,我和我那拉中提琴的闺密决定组建一个四重奏组。
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。
Andy must tend to her every whim without question and with the utmost haste for fear of the retribution she might receive from her boss.
安迪必须倾向于她的每一次心血来潮,毫无疑问,与最匆忙为报复她可能收到来自她的老板。
It would be a difficult thing if you were instantly manifesting every whim or every misaligned thought.
如果你立即彰显每一个心血来潮或每一个未对齐的思想,那将是一件很辛苦的事。
The nice thing about websites is, as a moonlighting thing, you can write as often as you want, on a whim.
在网站上发文章有一点好处,就像做兼职,你要突然有什么想法,随时都能写下来。
On a whim I walked the length of the train: Nearly all the computers were Apples.
我一时心血来潮从车头走到了车尾,发现几乎所有的电脑都是苹果的。
Johnson learned about the contest from his son, a New York University film student, and decided to enter on a whim.
约翰逊从他在纽约大学学习影视的儿子那里了解到这场竞赛,并决定实践这个念头。
Since she was an only child, her parents pandered to her every whim.
由于她是独女,父母对她总是百依百顺。
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。
Bathsheba's feeling is always to some extent dependent upon her whim, as is the case with many other women.
就象其他许多女人一样,巴丝谢芭的感情在某种程度上也总是受其冲动所支配的。
In ancient times, when a man of royal blood married a foreign woman of royal blood, it wasn't on a romantic whim.
在古代,当一位皇族要娶异邦的皇族女子为妻,并不是因为浪漫的一时所想,而是外交政策的一部分。
In the past, he says, getting the deed would have taken days, and might have depended on the whim of a civil servant.
他说,在过去要拿到地契得花好几天时间,并且还可能得视公务员的心情而定。
So how could I dare to be so dissatisfied as to head off on such a selfish and self-seeking whim?
那么,我为什么还敢怨气冲天,以至于去做这么一件自私自利,异想天开的事呢?
Backers of the new trade agreement retort that the CBI depends on the whim of the American government and can be rescinded at any time.
新贸易协定的支持者们则反驳说,CBI只是美国政府一时冲动的产物,任何时候都有可能被废除。
Your Inner Being would want you to fulfill every wish and whim that you could identify.
你的内在想要你完成你能确定的每一个希望和冲动(突发奇想)。
Between ourselves, I think he's delighted by this whim of mine, for it'll get me out of Paris for a while and help to shut his family up.
说实在的,我想他对我突然要离开巴黎一段时间的想法一定觉得很高兴,这样也可以使他家里少说些闲话。
These spiritual selves can then take you on a journey throughout the Universe, going at a whim to any place you desire.
然后这些分身——神性自己,带你遨游宇宙间,在一时兴致下到任何你想去的地方。
I shall die after I have made my confession. When it's over, you are to dress me in these things. It is the whim of a dying woman.
我做了忏悔以后就要死了,那时候你就用这些东西替我穿戴上:这是一个垂死女人的化妆打扮。
They seem to be able to change the rules of the game at whim.
他们好像能够随意改变比赛规则。
One day, the lion was seized by a whim to be the king, and he went into the forest.
一天,狮子突然心血来潮想称王,便走到森林里去。
Moreover, there is always a danger that freedoms extended at the whim of a ruler can be withdrawn.
而且,统治者心血来潮赐予的自由说收回就收回,这个危险始终存在。
That suggestion was no whim of the moment.
那个建议可不是一时的突发奇想。
On a whim, I decided to stay. I'd never been in that pub before but I felt comfortable alone there.
我以前从来没去过那个酒吧,但我觉得一个人待那很舒服。
Innovation, after all, is not something that can be conjured out of thin air at the whim of a bureaucrat.
毕竟,创新并非一个官僚能够突发奇想、凭空而造的东西。
Once passed, cannot be changed or varied according to the whim or caprice of any officer, board or individual.
一旦通过,就不能由于任何官员,委员会或个人的一时兴致或反复无常而变更或修改。
If you do not get a grab on yourself , you are condemning yourself to an entire life buffeted by the winds of emotional whim.
如果你无法控制自己情绪,你的一生将会因为不时的情绪冲动而受害。
Summerfield, FL First, I would like to say that I tried this product on a complete whim! ! ! ! !
萨默,佛罗里达州首先,我想说,我尝试了一个完整的心血来潮本产品!!!!!
It was then that, on a whim, he took up pottery.
退休后,细川一时心血来潮,迷上了陶艺。
Controversy indeed surrounded the Three Gorges Dam from the beginning, but this was not a decision taken on a whim.
围绕三峡大坝工程的争议的确从一开始就存在,但这个工程并不是一时兴起的决议。
The model of the hedge fund industry they popularised, able to deploy billions of dollars on a whim, is fast becoming a thing of the past.
这些人在对冲基金业所普及的、凭一时兴起部署数十亿美元的投资模式,正迅速变成明日黄花。