whims

whims

美 [hwɪm] 　英 [wɪm]

• n.忽起的念头；奇想；任性；【矿】采矿辘轳
• 网络幻想；妇女健康行动记忆研究；妇女健康倡议记忆研究(Women's Health Initiative Memory Study)

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

从短期来看，的确，一项如此依赖于政客朝令夕改的产业前景终将有极大的不确定性。

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

这对组合还不赖。鱼儿始终希望成为你生活的一部分，你们的关系可以持久下去。

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

你知道，我们都有过冲动-尤其是当我们喝高了的时候。

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。

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

大义凛然的地方官拒绝向这位叫做“阿罗那克斯”的混蛋低头，把他撵出了自己的办公室。

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.

什么书在什么时候再去读再去翻，连我自己也无把握，完全要看一个时期一个时期的兴趣。

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气，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，不像康诺利那样，通过“评判或好奇”选择出版哪个书稿。

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

弓对古老瘟疫、力量迷惑和您自己的内在邪魔治疗的异想天开。

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

她们之间那条错误的界线，是一个人的强力不顾后果地任意妄为的结果。

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

对于我们社会的仁慈依赖于政治、文化和对于宗教的幻想的想法，我们唯一的反应就是不寒而栗。

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

“这个联赛极易受到古怪念头的伤害，而且只是少数富人的兴趣”，加农教授补充说。

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

夏天总是很快就计划得满满的，但是，给自己时间沉迷于奇想很重要。

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

所以也就没必要预测佩顿那些一时兴起的念头啰？

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

想象力心智机能，能产生想法、幻想、想象；想象，尤指有异想天开或空想的特性的。

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

里斯-琼斯是法耶德家雇来保护家人和迎合他们的突发奇想的40名保安人员--“体重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.

就像你令人神魂颠倒的魅力，维康妮亚，我不会再度降于诱惑…不管是神还是卓尔精灵。

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

没错，我们欠了太多的钱…如果美国不向中国低头，终究会招致战争。

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

你过的那种充满了小技巧和小情绪的小生活在其自己的小范围内是值得尊敬的。

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

如果有一个行业有理由对股市的反复无常抱怨的话，那它应该是投资银行业。

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

改革促生了一批中产阶级，他们希望自己的不动产能在政党反复无常的政策变动中保持安全。

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

但她的许多同事在指责她想获取巴基耶夫独裁和他在玛纳斯的腐败交易。

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

当然，实践中农民将依然被集体所绑架，依然得面对代理集体的那些丑恶嘴脸。

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

对于城市居民而言，物权已成为重大利益的主题，他们急于保护自己的新资产免遭国家的侵犯。

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

我重复声明，你不需要去迎合你当地家庭教师协会的幻想。

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

家猫的饮食随人类的想法而变，但有时也吃一些它们自己所捕猎到的食物。

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

当然，这要求你要完全忠实于自己，不要把钱投入到一时的心血来潮或不切实际的幻想中。

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。

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

他们在不可战胜的力量的面前无能为力，人们悲惨地服从于神的旨意。

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

在这个女性统治的城市里，男性只能扮演绝对服从的角色，尽量迎合那些卓尔女性的奇思怪想。

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

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。

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

这些想法的自行车来自不同的来源，包括商业自行车，历史的和发明人自己的冲动。

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

倘若满足客户随时可能改变主意的要求，在改变主意的最后时刻更改订单的话，什么样的公司能够承担得起这样的巨大代价？

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

它是[净土在人间]天堂在地球物质的显现，认识到我们最高的好，实现我们一时兴致的想法。

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

“什么都行的年代现在已经一去不复返。政治不再靠个人心血来潮。”肯尼亚总统齐贝吉在就职典礼上演讲时提到。

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

在欧元的庇护下，成员国在一定程度上避开了外国资本的反复无常，结果减少了改进的压力。

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

不过他选择了一个激烈的方式来避开皱纹、大肚腩以及群众的善变。

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

农民工建设了现代化的北京，但他们的居住区仍在城市开发中风雨飘摇。

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

这使其经济不大会受到曾在其他地方导致严重金融危机的市场投机风潮的危害。

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

关于乳房的一件怪事在于：它们既是大众痴迷的对象，又容易受到通俗文化变幻无常式的伤害。