playthings

英 [ˈpleɪθɪŋz]

美 [ˈpleɪˌθɪŋz]

n.  玩物; 玩乐对象; 玩具
plaything的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 玩具；供玩耍的东西
  Aplaythingis a toy or other object that a child plays with.
  1. ...an untidy garden scattered with children's playthings.
     到处散落着玩具的凌乱的花园
• N-COUNT 玩物；被玩弄的人
  If you say that someone is treating you as aplaything, you think that they are using you for their amusement or advantage, and do not care about you.
  1. ...an unfaithful husband who treated women as playthings...
     把女人当玩物的不忠丈夫
  2. He would not allow anyone to make him into a political plaything for their own ends.
     他不会允许任何人为了达到其自身目的把他变成政治玩物。

双语例句

• Also, overindulged children also are not as challenged as children with fewer playthings to be more creative in their play.
  还有，玩具太多的孩子在玩的时候不如玩具少的孩子有创造性。
• I used to get them new playthings to keep them quiet.
  我过去常给他们买些新玩具使他们保持安静。
• At her campsite, Sheehan said each one was a valuable human life and an indispensable member of his or her family, so they should not be the "playthings for the people who lust for greed and power."
  希恩在克劳福德农场外的营地说：“每个人都是一个有价值的生命。每个人都是其家庭不可或缺的一员，而不是那些追求贪欲和权力的人的玩物。”
• We don't send playthings!'cried Catherine, her pride overcoming her shame.
  “我们不送玩意儿，”凯瑟琳叫着，她的骄傲征服了她的羞耻。
• The learning and morality the school had given me were just jokes, playthings for people with full stomachs and time to spare.
  学校里教给我的本事与道德都是笑话，都是吃饱了没事的玩艺。
• I seek out costly playthings, and gather lumps of gold and silver.
  我寻求贵重的玩具，收集金块与银块。
• Old Boys have their Playthings as well as young Ones; the Difference is only in the Price.
  老少都有自己的玩物，只是价格不同而已。
• This is now the most dramatic example of an alien plant invader affecting wildlife in Britain, 'he told The Observer. There smiles the Divine Child among his playthings of unmeaning clouds and ephemeral lights and shadows.
  「这是外来入侵树种影响英国野生动物的最戏剧化例子。那圣洁的孩子在乏味的云层和倏忽变幻的浮光掠影中嬉戏微笑。
• The system's voracious pursuit of power and profit had turned foreign nations into enslaved colonies, and human beings into the playthings of economic forces beyond their control.
  这个体系对权力和利润贪婪的追求把其他国家变成了殖民地，人类进入了经济游戏，可这种力量却超出了他们的控制。
• In China, the cucurbit is one kind of containers for alcohol liquor and also be used as playthings for aged persons 'recreation.
  葫芦在中国是一种盛酒的容器，也是一些老年人消遣的玩意儿。