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vagary如何读

英：['veɪgərɪ]

美：[ˈveɡəri, vəˈɡɛri]

vagary是什么意思

n.奇特；好奇；奇特行为；变幻莫测

vagary自然拼读

va·gar·y

veI g ri

vagary变形

复数:vagaries

vagary英英释义

noun

an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant occurrence, action, or idea; whim.The outlandish mansion was constructed according to the vagaries of a rich widow and heiress.She had no interest in the vagaries of horse racing.The vagaries of the weather at this time of year makes it difficult to plan outings.

vagary词源中文解释

1570年代，“漫游，漫步旅行”，源自意大利 vagare 或直接源自拉丁语 vagari “漫游，漫步，漫游，不安定，传播”，源自 vagus “漫游，徘徊”（见 vague）。该不定式似乎被英语采用为名词，并符合 -ary 名词的规范，“但这几乎无法解释，除非是最初的大学用途”[世纪词典]。当前的“古怪的想法或行为”（1620年代）来自于精神漫游的概念。相关： Vagaries。

vagary词源英文解释

perhaps borrowed from Latin vagārī "to wander, roam" — more at vagabond >entry 2

The first known use of vagary was in 1579

vagary儿童词典英英释义

vagueadjective

not clearly expressed

a vague answer

not clearly understood or sensed

only a vague idea of where we were

not clearly outlined : indistinct, shadowy

vague figures in the mist

vagueadjective

not clearly expressed

a vague answer

not clearly understood or sensed

only a vague idea of where we were

not clearly outlined : indistinct, shadowy

vague figures in the mist

vagrant1 of 2noun

a person who has no steady job and wanders from place to place

vagrant2 of 2adjective

wandering about from place to place

having no fixed course

vagrant breezes

vagrant1 of 2noun

a person who has no steady job and wanders from place to place

vagrant2 of 2adjective

wandering about from place to place

having no fixed course

vagrant breezes

vagrancynoun

the state or action of being vagrant

vaginanoun

a canal that leads from the uterus to the outside opening of the female sex organs

vaginanoun

a canal that leads from the uterus to the outside opening of the female sex organs

vagarynoun

an odd or unpredictable idea or happening

vagary 例句

1 Mr. West’s animating tension has always been the one he feels between pleasing the world and keeping himself safe from its vagaries, between being an entertainer and being the entertainment.

2 Levin gives the film a literary flair throughout, often panning back to the plaques on the benches of Central Park to speak of the vagaries of love.

3 Any noir recommendation right now is going to be subject to the vagaries of streaming.

4 After delivering a brief lecture on the vagaries of grammar and syntax, calculated to irritate Burr, Hamilton went on the offensive.

5 The siblings are sharply drawn and distinct, their ties weighted with rivalry, guilt and betrayal, the novel operating partly as a meditation on the vagaries of birth order.

6 Thomas has always been a calm and generous writer — or, perhaps, it's more accurate to describe her as accepting, open to the vagaries of fate.

7 There was electronic geekery and lyrical vagary, and drums pounded by someone other than the drummer.

8 When she gets arrested and sent to jail, Rudy impulsively decides to care for the helpless 14-year-old rather than leaving him to the vagaries of the Family Services system.

9 But Knox, a longtime journalist who went on to write several better-known novels, has a canny sense of human frailty, and his riffs on class and privilege — the gilded vagaries of “our type” — ring true.

10 He is now one of the better regulars there, with a game well adapted to the vagaries of outdoor Ping-Pong.

11 The football game is a forum for DeLillo to approach a familiar topic: the vagaries of mass consumption.

12 The combined effect is moving and forceful, suggesting a young woman wrestling with the ghosts of the past and the vagaries of an uncertain future.

13 And these children seem to accept the vagaries of casting with admirable level-headedness.

14 In addition to the financial strain of exchanging a steady paycheck for the vagaries of self-employment, Walt’s separation from his first wife left him with two families to support.

15 They worry about money, illness, parenthood, tenure and all the other vagaries of fate.

16 The richest and most eminently re-readable books of Naipaul’s fiction after “A House for Mr. Biswas” include “In a Free State,” an intimate suite of stories concerned with colonialism and the vagaries of power.

17 Travel insurance is another way to protect your vacation against life’s vagaries.

18 Mary was “the wet-nurse of salvation,” as one phrase had it, offering holy succor to communities exposed to the vagaries of war and disease.

19 But elsewhere she makes do with a lot of meandering melody and lyrical vagary.

20 In spite of its documentary-worthy title, Mr. Gabriadze’s play is not a straightforward dramatization of that monumental and bloody battle but a quirky theatrical poem on the vagaries of life itself.