frivolity
frivolity 英 [frɪˈvɒləti] 美 [frɪˈvɑləti]
n. 轻浮；轻薄；轻率
名词复数:frivolities
- Frivolity is a type of clownishness or silliness. Frivolity is the opposite of getting down to business in a serious way.
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- n. 轻浮；轻薄；轻率
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1. I dislike her frivolity.
我讨厌她轻浮的举止。
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2. There was a return to ornamentation—and there was a frivolity—something over and above the brutal structural form of the old modernist designs.
有对装饰的回归——有轻浮——那是一些凌驾于老套的现代主义设计这种残忍的结构形式的东西。
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3. Somewhere in the course of all that frivolity, binge drinking may occur.
轻浮无聊之处，饮酒狂欢之兴即起。
- frivolity (n.) 1796, from French frivolité, from Old French frivole "frivolous," from Latin frivolus (see frivolous).
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