whim

1 From the sad look on their laces I know December 29 despite their brave guesses they have begun to accept what I said on a whim.

2 The whim of a rich and famous girl.

3 The thirteen finches were not created by some divine whim, but by “natural descent”—cascading downward and outward from an original ancestral finch.

4 Likewise, policy should not be revised at every turn, nor rules changed by political whim.

同样地,在每一个经济起伏的转折期, 不应该泛政治化的瞎考虑,把既定政策立刻调整(正)改变既定游戏规则.

5 “I regret that I cannot indulge your childish whims, but I refuse to pity you in the manner to which you are well accustomed.”

6 Vaccinations against these diseases were not required by public schools merely on some whim.

7 “On a whim, I wrote a couple of paragraphs and mailed them in, ” he wrote.

“一时兴起，我写了几章给他们寄了过去”他写道。

8 They came on a whim because there it was and why not?

9 Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits, but for the moment's whim.

春日播撒繁花艳蕊，并非为了以后结出硕果，而是为了这瞬间的奇想。

10 I cannot ignore the fact that it’s the customers’ sloppiness and idle whims that make me bend and crouch and run.

11 By the time his favorite band came back to that venue, the Cranes would probably be long gone, living in Ohio or Mississippi or wherever their parents’ whims took them next.

12 Emotions are notthings that you can just shut off on a whim.

情绪是不可能一下子驱除的。

13 On a whim, she decided to slip off to Lambert a few weeks before the dedication.

14 Festering together in the debris of a realtor’s whim.

15 “It was fifteen thousand for a first-class ticket, but I’m sufficiently capitalized to indulge such whims. And the drinks are free on the flight. If you’re ambitious, you can almost break even.”

16 There was going to be no government, even by whim, even by Brinker’s whim, on this Saturday at Devon.

17 Whose whims had been taken seriously by adults and who grew up to be the stingiest, greediest people on earth and out of their stinginess grew their stingy little love that ate everything in sight.

18 They ate at whim, taking a bite here, a bite there.

19 In these days of my leisure, it was perhaps the mere whim to collect them which had come upon me.

在我悠闲的那些日子，也许是因为一时的兴致，我要把产生在我心里的幻想收集起来。

20 You would have a God who forgives all, but when it comes to your personal whims you seek punishment for your vengeance.

1 心血来潮

whimsical impulse on the spur of the moment take it into your head to do

2 想入非非

fey

3 怪想

caprice capriccio capricious whigmaleerie whigmaleery vagary crotchet whim-wham

4 绞盘

capstan windlass winch screw jack hauling winch

5 任性

rackle wild arbitrary naughty impulsive heady unruly wayward indiscriminate wanton capricious wilful headstrong self-indulgent ramshackle fractious obstreperous thrawn self-assertive self-will abandon freak caprice self-indulgence arbitrariness self-assertion indiscrimination

6 奇想

capriccioso fancy notion freak crank kink maggot conceit whimsy vagary caprice capriccio crotchet whimsicality whimsical chimerical quirk megrim conceited bee reverie chimera whimsy whamsy

7 绞车

winch wince winder windlass haulier hoister hauling winch

8 突发奇想

whimsical capricious capriciously caprice

9 冲动

impulsive impetuous urge impulse precipitation theatrical compulsive unreasoning call drive pulse calling compulsion impulsion lose your head

10 怪念头

maggot whimsy crotchet megrim whim-wham fantasy fancy freak

11 异想天开

whimsical a flight of fancy have bats in the belfry fantastic fancy romantic freak vagary

12 狂想

flighty quixotic