whimsical

英 [ˈwɪmzɪkl]

美 [ˈwɪmzɪkl]

adj.  异想天开的; 想入非非的; 心血来潮的; 滑稽可笑的

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Collins.1 / BNC.20692 / COCA.13075

牛津词典

adj.

• 异想天开的；想入非非的；心血来潮的；滑稽可笑的
  unusual and not serious in a way that is either amusing or annoying
  1. to have a whimsical sense of humour
     有离奇的幽默感
  2. Much of his writing has a whimsical quality.
     他的大部分作品都很出奇。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 怪异的;反复无常的;不切实际的
  Awhimsicalperson or idea is unusual, playful, and unpredictable, rather than serious and practical.
  1. McGrath remembers his offbeat sense of humor, his whimsical side...
     麦格拉思记得他不同寻常的幽默感和他古怪的一面。
  2. His graphic art became slighter and more whimsical.
     他的平面艺术变得越来越无足轻重，越来越异想天开。

英英释义

adj

• determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
  1. a capricious refusal
  2. authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious
  3. the victim of whimsical persecutions
  Synonym:capriciousimpulsive

双语例句

• Mr Gale and Mr Shapley considered a whimsical problem: how to design a centralised system for allocating husbands and wives in a way that there is no possible male-female combination with a mutual desire to elope.
  盖尔和沙普利研究过一个异想天开的问题：如何设计一套分配丈夫和妻子的中央系统，按照这种方法，没有一对男士-女士的结合会同时寻求与伴侣分手，转而与别人私奔。
• Sometimes my goal has been whimsical in the extreme.
  有时候，我的目标千奇百怪。
• For some artists, bound books are the medium, as in Stephen Doyle's geometric sculpture ( top left) and Su Blackwell's whimsical one ( bottom center).
  对有些艺术家来说，精装书是载体，比如在斯蒂芬·道尔（StephenDoyle）的几何图形雕塑（左上）和苏·布莱克威尔（SuBlackwell）异想天开的作品（中下）中。
• Men tend to think that women are very whimsical with decision making.
  男人普遍认为女人在做决定时非常异想天开、反复无常。
• If you love fairy tales and whimsical romances, this is the perfect movie for you.
  如果你喜欢的童话故事和异想天开的恋情，这是为您提供完美的电影。
• Whimsical name-but some serious content.
  这是个古怪的名字，但内容非常严谨。
• In his whimsical imagination the ants become wise and creative creatures like people, and his "grandfather after his death has turned into the King of ants(" Perhaps It Is a Parable")".
  在其古怪的想象当中，蚂蚁象人一样，变成聪明而有创造性的动物。他的“祖父，死后变成了蚁王”（《也许是寓言》）。
• For an easter egg, something fun and whimsical, to overshadow the entire rest of the game was a huge problem, and one that existed for far too long.
  作为一个复活节彩蛋，是有些有趣和古怪的，使游戏剩下的内容失色是一个巨大的问题，并且他存在的太久了。
• Despite his kindly, sometimes whimsical air, he was a shrewd observer ofpeople.
  尽管他有着和善、时而古怪的神态，但他对人的观察很敏锐。
• Products by Frost ( Papillon) and Lafont ( Nec Plus Ultra) feature whimsical butterfly-shaped silhouettes.
  弗罗斯特的蝴蝶（Papillon）和拉芳特的NecPlusUltra都采用造型奇特的蝴蝶型轮廓。