whimsy
whimsy 英 [ˈwɪmzi] 美 [ˈhwɪmzi, ˈwɪm-]
n. 怪念头；反复无常
名词复数:whimsies
- Whimsy is what a person who's a dreamer and out of step with the real world might have lots of. People who are full of whimsy are odd, but often fanciful and lovely, like Harry Potter's friend Luna Lovegood.
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- n. 怪念头；反复无常
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1. Beautiful young people are the whimsy of nature, but beautiful old people are true works of art.
美丽的年轻人是大自然的奇想，而美丽的老人却是艺术的杰作。
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2. But those impulses can also strip a language of its wit, whimsy, and play, not to mention its capacity to accommodate new concepts and usages.
然而这些憧憬同样也会剥削去一门语言的智慧、诙谐和乐趣，以及接受新概念和新用法的空间。
- whimsy (n.) c. 1600, probably related to whimwham.
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