whim

whim

英音 [wɪm] 美音 [hwɪm, wɪm]

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基本翻译或解释：

n. 一时的兴致；突然的念头；怪念头，奇想；幻想
vi. 心血来潮地向往

详细解释：

whim 心血来潮 缩写自whimsy.

用法与例句：

Yet unlike much other plastic surgery it is no vanity-inspired whim .

然而与其它整形外科不同的是，它不是一时贪图虚荣的突发奇想。

But now , you have no right to expect them to bow to every whim and fancy just because selfish ego instead of common sense dominates your personality , thinking and request .

但是现在，你没有权利期望他们屈从于每一个怪念头和幻想，因为自私的自我而不是常识，主宰了你的人格、思维和需要。

You may or may not have heard before how brin and page dispensed with personal assistants and calendars , preferring to bounce through their large ly unstructured days as the whim took them , or how they disbanded an entire layer of managers to set their engineers free of almost all controls .

你或许听说过（也可能没有），布林和佩奇如何抛开了私人助手和日历，更愿意听凭一时的兴致带他们匆匆走过一个个杂乱无章的日子；或是他们如何解散了整整一个管理层，将工程师们从各种限制中解放出来。

However some modern designers are whim the aquarium tank into the interior furniture .

然而，有些现代设计师却突发奇想，把水族缸变成了室内家具。

Emotionally , it 's hard to accept that the whim of a nonentity can change history .

一个无足轻重者的突发奇想可以改变历史，从情感上讲，我们很难接受这一点。