Fad
[fæd]
解释:
(noun.) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; 'he always follows the latest fads'; 'it was all the rage that season'.
亚瑟校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A hobby ; freak; whim.
尤因整理
解释:
n. a weak or transient hobby crotchet or craze: any unimportant belief or practice intemperately urged.—adjs. Fad′dish given to fads—also Fad′dy.—ns. Fad′disnness; Fad′dism; Fad′dist one who is a slave to some fad.
贝丝录入
例句:
- The _fad_ of drawing plans! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Being lofty about the passing fad and the ephemeral outcry is all very well in the biographies of dead men, but rank nonsense in the rulers of real ones. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It is very hard: it is your favorite _fad_ to draw plans. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It was there that he perfected the peculiar vertical style of writing which, beginning with him in telegraphy, later became so much of a fad with teachers of penmanship and in the schools. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- People nowadays were too busy--busy with reforms and movements, with fads and fetishes and frivolities--to bother much about their neighbours. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Another of Medora's fads--really this time it was almost prophetic! 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which our fads may cause you. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- It seems at times as if our capacity for appreciating originality were absorbed in the trivial eccentricities of fads and fashions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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