1.忽起的念头,一时的兴致;奇想,怪想;任性
2.【矿】采矿辘轳;绞盘;绞车
1.a sudden feeling that you must have or must do something. This word often suggests that what someone wants is not important
1.In the short term, though, the prospects of a business so dependent on the whims of politicians are bound to be uncertain.
从短期来看，的确，一项如此依赖于政客朝令夕改的产业前景终将有极大的不确定性。
2.This is not bad. The Fish is willing to be a part of your whims and desires, and that makes for a lasting union.
这对组合还不赖。鱼儿始终希望成为你生活的一部分，你们的关系可以持久下去。
3.And you know, we've all - especially those of us who drink - have had whims.
你知道，我们都有过冲动-尤其是当我们喝高了的时候。
4.Elennor, even then, was not the kind of wife who bowed to her husband's whims, and her husband's whim was to climb a certain mountain.
即使在那时，埃莉诺也不属于随和丈夫一时兴致的那一类妻子，她丈夫当时的兴致是爬山。
5.The Governor, to his credit, refused to bow to this "Arronax's" whims , and told him to get out of his office.
大义凛然的地方官拒绝向这位叫做“阿罗那克斯”的混蛋低头，把他撵出了自己的办公室。
6.But I have little idea which book is to be read or looked over again at what time. It is completely subject to the whims of the moment.
什么书在什么时候再去读再去翻，连我自己也无把握，完全要看一个时期一个时期的兴趣。
7.Anna put up patiently with all her aunt's whims, gradually set to work on her sister's education.
安娜耐心地忍受她姨母的一切怪脾气，按部就班地安排她妹妹的教育。
8.The point of publishers is not, as Connolly implies, about employing "judgments or whims" to choose which manuscripts to publish.
而出版商一方，不像康诺利那样，通过“评判或好奇”选择出版哪个书稿。
9.Bow to the whims of an ancient plague, the power to mystify and a cure of your own inner demons.
弓对古老瘟疫、力量迷惑和您自己的内在邪魔治疗的异想天开。
10.The fault line between them was drawn by the ability of power to satisfy its whims and ignore the consequences.
她们之间那条错误的界线，是一个人的强力不顾后果地任意妄为的结果。