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
- Youth with its fumbling and follies, its eagerness and questioning, is the eternal hope of mankind.
青春充满着幼稚而愚笨的探索，充满着渴望和质疑，它是人类社会不竭的希望。 - Be the bigger man and apologise for your follies.
做有品行的人，为自己的愚蠢道歉吧。 - 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。 - All her follies have, we believe, been told.
我们相信，她干的蠢事已经全部说了。 - 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。 - Peg used to be in the dog and pony follies.
杰姆过去一直是坏蛋和蠢货。 - 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。 - The mouth of a fool boils forth follies. ( informal) having or revealing stupidity.
蠢人嘴里说出来的尽是蠢话。（非正式）愚蠢或者显示出愚蠢。 - The writings of Swift mocked the follies of his age.
斯威夫特的作品嘲弄了他那个时代的愚人。 - Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
◎从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。