We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco.我们多少有点心血来潮，决定航海去摩洛哥。Lately, the president has been sacking and picking new ministers at whim.最近，总统一时兴起频频解雇旧部长，选任新部长。Dozens of servants had catered to his every whim....
I had a sudden whim to take a walk.我突然想去散步.He panders to her every whim.他对她的性子百依百顺.Once we fall, however slightly, into immoderation, momentum gathers and we can be lost to whim.一旦我们失去节制, 不管多么轻微, 惯性便形成了, 我们就有可能在奇想中迷失.The...
He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.他21岁时突患致残重疾。Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病."It is the sort of malady which we call monomania," said the doctor.“这种病我们叫做偏执狂。”医生说道。...
"Basic Instinct" catapulted her to top status among Hollywood's glamour goddesses.《本能》使她跃至一线，成功跻身好莱坞耀眼的女明星之列。The woman goddesses were kindlier and more subtle.女神是较为仁慈和体贴入微的.Why does he refuse? Can one worship both g...
这一罪行在全国上下引起一片轰动。The crime sent shock waves throughout the country.演出十分轰动。The show was a smash hit.她是那种会做出惊人之举引起轰动的人.She is a person who would set the world on fire....
This is a basic tenet of capitalism.这是资本主义的一则基本信条.The only moral tenet governing the conduct of business in the shop was that the goods should be genuine and the price fair.货真价实,是商店唯一的道德.The mutability of the past is the...