| 词汇 | caprice |
| 释义 | caprice noun[ C or U ] literaryuk /kəˈpriːs/ us /kəˈpriːs/ (the quality of often having) a sudden and usually silly wish to have or do something, or a sudden and silly change of mind or behaviour: 异想天开;反复无常;突发奇想 The $300 million palace was built to satisfy the caprice of one man.用3亿美元建这座宫殿就是为了满足一个人的心血来潮。 Synonyms impulse whim Feelings of desire appetite carnality carnally compulsion covetousness entitled hankering hunger impulse impulse buy impulse buying itchy temptation thirst urge vaulting whim whimsy wish yen Examples of capricecaprice But how to rescue the discourse from charges that it will be meaningless, trivial, and inconsistent, dependent on the caprice of conversation itself? They promise 'a portrait of orderly aggregate behaviour without challenging the consensus that individual behaviour involves large elements of caprice and disorder' (p.xx). Aesthetic values attend upon the caprice of the financially successful. I dream of dramelyriqueas human, without giving up either fantasy, or caprice, or mystery. He defined education as self-estrangement, ' ' the process of the adoption of the social order in place of one's mere animal caprice. Her conduct is marked by extreme waywardness and caprice. He reasons that, as architects are not artists, they must be concerned with producing drawings which communicate building not caprice. It is not, that is to say, subject to human caprice. This case study is not about passive minorities subjected to the whims and caprices of the majority. Mediatization of the political debate implies either politicians' increased responsiveness to media caprices or politicians' loss of monopoly over news coverage. When guidelines standardize practice based on implicit bedside rationing conventions, they magnify and multiply the ethical caprice of bedside rationing. Not only did this focus of capitalism overburden the household with gadgets, but also the fixation on demand created a world of caprice and illusion. Stoicism could be seen as creating a sense of self aloof from the caprices of fortune, which enabled the individual to cope and remain constant despite reversals. For all, the focus is on building a systematic moral theory around the value of welfare, rather than around more controversial 'intuitions' or 'caprice'. Dramelyriquewill be human without repudiating 'fantasy', 'caprice' and 'mystery'. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
| 随便看 |
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。