Folly
['fɒlɪ] or ['fɑli]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) foolish or senseless behavior.
(noun.) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly.
(noun.) the quality of being rash and foolish; 'trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly'; 'adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness'.
埃斯特尔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
(n.) A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
(n.) Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
(n.) The result of a foolish action or enterprise.
伊莱錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Foolishness, imbecility, fatuity, stupidity, shallowness, dulness, doltishness.[2]. Absurdity, extravagance, imprudence, nonsense, indiscretion, act of folly, foolish act.
格伦錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Madness, nonsense, misconduct, imprudence, silliness, foolishness, weakness,absurdity, imbecility
ANT:Sense, wisdom, sanity, judgment, prudence, sobriety
汉丽埃塔整理
解釋/意思:
n. silliness or weakness of mind: a foolish act: criminal weakness: (B.) sin: a monument of folly as a great structure left unfinished having been begun without a reckoning of the cost.—v.i. to act with folly.
手打:蒙塔古
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. That 'gift and faculty divine ' whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind guides his actions and adorns his life.
汉娜錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- In the periodical publications of June, 1914, may be read the eloquent announcement: Langley's Folly Flies. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The matter begins and ends with the boy's own perversity and folly. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But why, said she, should it be pure folly? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I don't defend the folly of playing you a trick under the circumstances. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- What can equal the folly of our two relations? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- She thought it was her signor marito who had sent them, and she cried a little and said it was a folly. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- She is not actuated by malevolence, but sheer, heedless folly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And ignorance and folly are inanitions of the soul? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I never was so ashamed in my life to hear a man talk folly as I have been to hear you talk this day to the present company. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- However, if I get well over this folly, I will for the rest of my life reign lord paramount or nothing. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- My dear Fanny, replied Edmund, scarcely hearing her to the end, let us not, any of us, be judged by what we appeared at that period of general folly. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I did not, said Worcester, half indignantly, I did not know that I was quite a fool; and at all events, I shall not intrude my folly on you if I am. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- It was naturally to be expected, therefore, that folly, negligence, and profusion, should prevail in the whole management of their affairs. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Nay, say rather the feather-pated giddy madmen, said Waldemar, who must be toying with follies when such business was in hand. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I have committed follies, gentlemen,' said Uriah, looking round with a meek smile, 'and I ought to bear the consequences without repining. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commiseration with the follies of Prior Aymer. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Young women have committed similar follies often before, and have repented them in poverty and obscurity often before. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- No: If I must be a fool, as all those who reason or believe any thing certainly are, my follies shall at least be natural and agreeable. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- I am conscious of my own past follies. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- With all his faults and follies, a sweet and pleasant gentleman! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, _do_ divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- One half of those vain follies were puffed into mine ear by that perfidious Abbot Wolfram, and you may now judge if he is a counsellor to be trusted. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She could make a butt of Fred when he was present, but she did not enjoy his follies when he was absent. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- When I think of my past follies, and my present state, I am sure it would be best for you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Plato in a hyperbolical and serio-comic vein exaggerates the follies of democracy which he also sees reflected in social life. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- We will not trouble ourselves here with the names and follies, the crimes and intrigues, of its tale of emperors. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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