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
- I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself.
别人的愚蠢和过错我本应该赶快忘掉,却偏偏忘不掉;人家得罪了我,我也忘不掉。 - All her follies have, we believe, been told.
我们相信,她干的蠢事已经全部说了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Volantis has known her share of follies, but she's never suffered a boy triarch.
瓦兰提斯有着她一定比例的愚行,但是从未经历过男孩元老这种事。 - I loath sentimental rubbish. The old man smiled sadly when he remembered the follies of his youth.
我讨厌令人伤感的荒唐事。这老人想起年轻时的荒唐事,不禁苦笑。 - "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”。 - They are imbrued with the follies of youth. His head is full of silly notions.
他们满脑子都是年轻人的傻念头。他满脑子的怪想法。 - 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。