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
- Ziegfeld's great triumph, the Follies, came soon after.
齐格飞的大胜利，他很快就接著推出歌舞团表演。 - Volantis has known her share of follies, but she's never suffered a boy triarch.
瓦兰提斯有着她一定比例的愚行，但是从未经历过男孩元老这种事。 - They believe they are entitled to lecture debtors on their follies.
它们认为自己有权对债务国的愚蠢行为加以训诫。 - 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。 - Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
◎从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。 - The follies of Finance and failures of regulation bear the blame.
金融蠢行和监管失败难辞其咎。 - 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。 - Protection, subsidies and other such follies distort agriculture more than any other sector.
保护、补贴及其它此类荒唐做法对农业的扭曲大于其它行业。 - All her follies have, we believe, been told.
我们相信，她干的蠢事已经全部说了。 - To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.
想恢复青春，只要重犯旧过就行。