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
- We will not trouble ourselves here with the names and follies, the crimes and intrigues, of its tale of emperors.
这里我们不谈关于帝王们的名号、昏庸、罪恶和阴谋等等的故事。 - 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。 - Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
记得年轻时所做蠢事的人是幸福的。 - My reconcilement to the kind in general might not be so difficult, if they would be content with those vices and follies only which nature has entitled them to.
如果“野猢”这个种族满足于大自然赋予他们的那些罪恶与愚蠢，我同它们的和解就不会太困难。 - They had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.
他们不仅具有了与其他老年人一模一样的所有毛病，而且因为那可怕的永生不死的未来，他们还会出现更多的毛病。 - I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others.
我发现我很难原谅别人的愚蠢和恶习。 - 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。 - All her follies have, we believe, been told.
我们相信，她干的蠢事已经全部说了。 - Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
◎从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。 - 'I don't wish to add murder to my other follies,' he said.
我不想在我的愚蠢上又添上谋杀的罪名，他说。