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怪念头,心情浮动,反复无常
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Whimsy \Whim"sy\, n.
A whimsey.
Whimsey \Whim"sey\, Whimsy \Whimsy\, n.; pl. {Whimseys}or
{Whimsies}. [See {Whim}.]
1. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd
conceit. ``The whimsies of poets and painters.'' --Ray.
Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. --Swift.
Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the
calm revelation of truth. --Bancroft.
2. (Mining) A whim.
资料来源 : WordNet®
whimsy
n 1: an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical
notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his
stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon";
"whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy
it" [syn: {notion}, {whim}, {whimsey}]
2: the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or
caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the
flightiness and whimsicality of my memory" [syn: {flightiness},
{arbitrariness}, {whimsicality}, {whimsey}, {capriciousness}]
[also: {whimsiest}, {whimsier}]