He was forced to pander to her every whim.
她每次心血来潮他都不得不依随她。
We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco.
我们多少有些心血来潮地决定乘船去摩洛哥。
A still picture could only imply the existence of time, while time in a novel passed at the whim of the reader.
"一张静止的照片只是暗示了时间的存在,而小说中的时间则随着读者的幻想而流逝。
She hires and fires people at whim.
她随心所欲地雇用人和解雇人。
Dozens of servants had catered to his every whim.
几十个仆人曾迎合他所有离奇的想法。
Don't start the transition on a whim.
不要草率地开始过渡流程。
Some clients feel like you exist solely to cater to their every whim.
一些客户认为你应该完全迎合他们的反复无常。
“On a whim, I wrote a couple of paragraphs and mailed them in, ” he wrote.
“一时兴起,我写了几章给他们寄了过去”他写道。
If you only pray about them once, they are not a desire, they are just a whim.
如果你只对它们祷告一次,它们不是一个愿望,它们只是一时兴起。
So on a whim my viola-playing girlfriend and I decided to put a quartet together.
一时冲动,我和我那拉中提琴的闺密决定组建一个四重奏组。
Under the new rules, credit-card companies can't jack up interest rates on a whim.
在新法案规定下,信用卡公司不能凭着心血来潮随意提高贷款利率。
However, some modern designers are whim, the aquarium tank into the interior furniture.
然而,有些现代设计师却突发奇想,把水族缸变成了室内家具。
An idle whim, I fear, Sir, 'was my answer;' or else an idle whim is going to spirit me away.
“恐怕是一种无聊的奇想,先生,”这是我的回答,“不然就是一种无聊的奇想又要诱使我走开。”
In the Mesopotamian stories, for example, the gods act capriciously, the gods act on a whim.
例如,在美索不达米亚的故事中,神肆意妄为,凭着一时的念头做事。
In these days of my leisure, it was perhaps the mere whim to collect them which had come upon me.
在我悠闲的那些日子,也许是因为一时的兴致,我要把产生在我心里的幻想收集起来。
On a whim, he decided to take a trip around the country to look up nearly a dozen old girlfriends.
一天他突发奇想,决定四处走走,去看看他那些接近一打的旧时女友。
Or people who have granted themselves the right to switch between these two identities on a whim?
还是说这些人觉得自己可以在这两种身份中随意转换呢?
So how could I dare to be so dissatisfied as to head off on such a selfish and self-seeking whim?
那么,我为什么还敢怨气冲天,以至于去做这么一件自私自利,异想天开的事呢?
The nice thing about websites is as a moonlighting thing you can write as often as you want on a whim.
在网站上发文章有一点好处,就像做兼职,你要突然有什么想法,随时都能写下来。
You don't necessarily need to decide ahead of time - often it's good to follow the whim of the moment.
你不需要事先就决定,通常看当时的心情就好。
Under the prevailing "law of partnerships", businesses could be dissolved at the whim of a single partner.
在盛行的“合伙法”中,如果某一个合伙者突发异想,整个商务会因此而化为乌有。
Bagehot's view is that they are at least as good a motive as many others, such as whim and inherited prejudice.
而白哲特的观点却认为:电视辩论与另一些行为动机是差不多的,例如:一时的兴致与生来具有的偏见。
On a whim, I can spontaneously decide to take a trip or go someplace with BF somewhere if we are both free.
心血来潮的时候,如果我的男朋友也很闲,那我会自然而然的决定找个地方去旅游。
Another test, my liver is cleared and she says almost like on a whim, why don't you get a full-body bone scan?
肝脏测试没发现问题。然后,她几乎是有一搭没一搭地建议说,要不你去做个全身骨扫描吧。
No one negates history out of a passing whim, but only under the impact of harrowing and unsuspected tragedies.
没有人一闪念就否定了历史,除非历经悲痛的打击与意料不到的悲剧。
Johnson learned about the contest from his son, a New York University film student, and decided to enter on a whim.
约翰逊从他在纽约大学学习影视的儿子那里了解到这场竞赛,并决定实践这个念头。
She knew now that she wasn’t just a leaf that depended on every whim of the wind, but that she was part of the universe.
她知道现在她不只是一片依赖于风的一时兴致的树叶了,她成为宇宙的一部分。
She knew now that she wasn't just a leaf that depended on every whim of the wind, but that she was part of the universe.
她知道现在她不只是一片依赖于风的一时兴致的树叶了,她成为宇宙的一部分。
I added the olives on a high-calorie whim at the last minute, and they crop up, bleak and oily surprises, among the noodles.
我在最后一刻灵机一动往高卡路里里放了小肉片菜卷,它们在面条里突然变成暗淡色并且油腻了。
Teenagers are being groomed to think others can be picked up on a whim and dropped because of a mood or some slight offence.
青少年在对待与其他人的关系的时候,可能因为一时兴起而结识对方,又会因为一个念头,一次不经意的冒犯而断绝来往。
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