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。
• 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”。
• But they do so based on their expectations of future trends in supply and demand, not on whims.
  但是他们是基于他们对未来供需趋势的预期来投资的，而不是一时兴起而为之。
• 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。
• I have not been used to submit to any person's whims.
  任何人玩什么花巧，我都不会屈服。
• With the reduction in foreign investments, the government will be even more a hostage to the whims of the international oil price
  随着外资的减少，政府将更加受制于起伏不定的国际油价。
• Indulge your aeronautical whims.
  尽管纵容你的飞天奇想吧。
• 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。
• They are completely subject to the whims and moods of a single superior.
  他们完全受制于上司个人的一时想法和情绪。
• You should be the last to care about the whims of the designer-based, enterprise-library-minded, software-factory-code-generator-happy folk.
  我们不应该再沉浸于基于设计器的，企业类库思想的，乐于使用软件工厂代码设计器的幻想中了。