follies

英 [ˈfɒliz]

美 [ˈfɑliz]

n.  愚蠢; 愚笨; 愚蠢的想法(或事情、行为); (常见于旧时乡间豪宅花园中的)装饰性建筑
folly的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 愚蠢;荒唐
  If you say that a particular action or way of behaving isfollyor afolly, you mean that it is foolish.
  1. It's sheer folly to build nuclear power stations in a country that has dozens of earthquakes every year.
     在每年会发生几十次地震的国家建造核电站简直就是愚蠢至极。
  2. ...a reminder of the follies of war.
     提醒人们战争之愚蠢的东西
• (尤指旧时英国花园等中的)装饰性建筑
  Afollyis a small tower or other unusual building that is built as a decoration in a large garden or park, especially in Britain in former times.

英英释义

noun

• a revue with elaborate costuming

双语例句

• Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
  ◎从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。
• Peg used to be in the dog and pony follies.
  杰姆过去一直是坏蛋和蠢货。
• Youth with its fumbling and follies, its eagerness and questioning, is the eternal hope of mankind.
  青春充满着幼稚而愚笨的探索，充满着渴望和质疑，它是人类社会不竭的希望。
• Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that they themselves commit.
  爱情是盲目的，恋人看不见自己做的傻事。
• The follies of Finance and failures of regulation bear the blame.
  金融蠢行和监管失败难辞其咎。
• Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
  记得年轻时所做蠢事的人是幸福的。
• To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.
  想恢复青春，只要重犯旧过就行。
• We will not trouble ourselves here with the names and follies, the crimes and intrigues, of its tale of emperors.
  这里我们不谈关于帝王们的名号、昏庸、罪恶和阴谋等等的故事。
• "You are too old for such follies," said Mother.
  母亲说：“你这样大了，不应再做这种荒唐事”。
• My reconcilement to the kind in general might not be so difficult, if they would be content with those vices and follies only which nature has entitled them to.
  如果“野猢”这个种族满足于大自然赋予他们的那些罪恶与愚蠢，我同它们的和解就不会太困难。