levity
levity 英 [ˈlevəti] 美 [ˈlɛvɪti]
n. 多变；轻浮；轻率；不稳定
名词复数:levities
- Joking that your dead grandmother "never looked better" could inject some levity, or frivolity, into her funeral, but your relatives might find your joke inappropriate to the occasion.
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- n. 多变；轻浮；轻率；不稳定
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1. I am sure foreigners must think our levity is baffling.
外国人肯定认为我们的轻浮举止不可理喻。
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2. It also reintroduces much-needed levity to an act that can be overbearingly self-serious.
它也再次对这可能会是不可一世的惺惺作态之举（overbearingly self-serious），引入急需的轻率。
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3. Of course I can understand why they might consider tourists frolicking with his likeness to be a display of inappropriate levity.
我当然能理解他们为什么会觉得游客对希特勒肖像的嬉戏是不适当的轻浮表现。
- levity (n.) 1560s, "want of seriousness, frivolity," from French levite, from Latin levitatem (nominative levitas) "lightness," literal and figurative; "light-mindedness, frivolity," from levis "light" in weight, from PIE root *legwh- "not heavy, having little weight." In old science (16c.-17c.), the name of a force or property of physical bodies, the opposite of gravity, causing them to tend to rise.
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