whimsy

英 ['wɪmzi] 美 ['wɪmzi]

• n. 怪念头；异想天开；心情浮动；反复无常

英英释义

Noun:

1. an odd or fanciful or capricious idea;

   "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"
   "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"
   "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"
   

2. the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment;

   "I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He had a whimsy about flying to the moon.
   他有个想飞上月球的怪念头。
2. Some show cars are pure whimsy, confections dreamed up by young designers at play.
   展出的车型中有些纯属异想天开，只是年轻设计师们闲来无事的凭空想像。
3. We marvel at the whimsy of the devastation.
   我们对灾难的反复无常感到吃惊。

经典引文

• The train had..stopped at some chance spot..someone's whimsy.

  出自： M. Bradbury

词汇搭配

• whimsy-whamsy 奇想

近反义词

【近义词】

• caprice 反复无常
• whimsicality 反复无常
• whim 一时的兴致
• notion 观念
• quaintness 古怪(精致)
• oddity 古怪
• oddness 奇怪
• eccentricity 古怪
• quirkiness 诡诈
• conceit 自负
• fancy 华丽装饰的
• fantasy 幻想
• quirk 怪癖
• whimsey 怪念头
• arbitrariness 任意
• flightiness 轻浮
• capriciousness 任性