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.- 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。 - ...a reminder of the follies of war.
提醒人们战争之愚蠢的东西
- It's sheer folly to build nuclear power stations in a country that has dozens of earthquakes every year.
- (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
- 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。 - Ziegfeld's great triumph, the Follies, came soon after.
齐格飞的大胜利，他很快就接著推出歌舞团表演。 - I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others.
我发现我很难原谅别人的愚蠢和恶习。 - 'I don't wish to add murder to my other follies,' he said.
我不想在我的愚蠢上又添上谋杀的罪名，他说。 - 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。 - Be the bigger man and apologise for your follies.
做有品行的人，为自己的愚蠢道歉吧。 - 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。 - Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
◎从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。 - Most of all, it warns me to keep myself free from common follies.
最重要的是，它时刻警醒我摆脱普遍的愚蠢。 - 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。