caprice

英 [kəˈpriːs]

美 [kəˈpriːs]

n.  (态度或行为的)无缘无故突变; 任性; 反复无常; 善变

复数：caprices　第三人称单数：caprices　

GRETEM8

BNC.34007 / COCA.26827

牛津词典

noun

• （态度或行为的）无缘无故突变，反复无常；任性
  a sudden change in attitude or behaviour for no obvious reason
• 反复无常；善变
  the tendency to change your mind suddenly or behave unexpectedly

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 任性;反复无常;善变
  Acapriceis an unexpected action or decision which has no strong reason or purpose.
  1. I lived in terror of her sudden caprices and moods.
     她的任性妄为和喜怒无常让我整天提心吊胆。

英英释义

noun

• a sudden desire
  1. he bought it on an impulse
  Synonym:impulsewhim

双语例句

• In a condition of merely agricultural industry, caprice and slavery, superstition and ignorance, want of means of culture, of trade, and of transport, poverty and political weakness exist.
  国家处于纯农业阶段时，国内情况是任性与奴役、迷信与无知，在文化、贸易、运输各方面都感到缺乏，贫困和政治上的衰弱是它们的特点。
• Let our friendship be a caprice.
  就让我们的友谊算作一时遣兴吧。
• Eg. her decision to wear only black clothes was pure caprice.
  她决定只穿黑衣服完全是忽发奇想。
• A hailstorm in July is a caprice of nature.
  七月天的一场冰雹是大自然的反复无常的变化。
• Before the establishment of labor unions, a worker could be discharged at the caprice of any manager.
  在工会组织建立以前，一个工人可能因任何一个经理人员的一时兴起而被解雇。
• Even though I could gratify every caprice and lay my hands on every object of desire, I would not go into rapture, unless with you in my life.
  除非生命中有你，否则，即使能恣意妄为，能染指任何想要的，我也不会快乐。
• This wasn't a love that depended on chance or caprice, but a love as mighty and eternal as the universe itself.
  这不是依赖机会或反复无常的爱，这爱跟宇宙本身一样巨大和永恒。
• He acted not from reason, but from caprice.
  他不是凭理智，而是凭幻想来行动。
• Whimsical i.determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice.
  异想天开古怪念头或异想天开的所决定的。
• If his own vanity, however, did not mislead him, he was the cause, his pride and caprice were the cause, of all that Jane had suffered, and still continued to suffer.
  如果彬格莱先生本来并没有给虚荣心冲昏头脑，那么，吉英目前所受的种种痛苦，以及将来还要受下去的痛苦，都得归罪于他，归罪于他的傲慢和任性。