caprices

英 [kəˈpriːsɪz]

美 [kəˈprisəz]

n.  (态度或行为的)无缘无故突变; 任性; 反复无常; 善变
caprice的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 任性;反复无常;善变
  Acapriceis an unexpected action or decision which has no strong reason or purpose.
  1. I lived in terror of her sudden caprices and moods.
     她的任性妄为和喜怒无常让我整天提心吊胆。

双语例句

• Sonya kept house, waited on her aunt, read aloud to her, bore with her caprices and her secret dislike, and helped Nikolay to conceal from the old countess their poverty-stricken position.
  索尼娅料理家务，侍奉姑母，念书给她听，忍受她的任性和内心中对她的嫌恶，帮助尼古拉向老公爵夫人隐瞒他们经济上的窘迫。
• I lived in terror of her sudden caprices and moods.
  她的任性妄为和喜怒无常让我整天提心吊胆。
• China is experiencing the transition from the unified wages of a command economy to the caprices and huge differences in salaries of a market economy.
  中国正在经历一个转型期，由原来统一工资的计划经济向工资差距巨大的市场经济转变。
• It is possible to have a long, productive and fulfilling career, or careers, even when changing industries and technologies and the caprices of the marketplace threaten to make us obsolete.
  即使是产业、科技以及市场的无常变换使得我们过时了，也还是有可能保持一个长久、有效、能让你满足的事业。
• The dam protects the region from nature's caprices.
  水坝保护了该地区不受大自然风云变幻的影响。
• We cannot control the caprices of mother nature.
  我们无法控制自然之母的变幻无常。
• Said Catherine, leaning back, and returning his look with a suddenly clouded brow: her humour was a mere vane for constantly varying caprices.
  凯瑟琳说，向后仰着，以突然阴沉下来的脸色回答他的凝视：她的性子不过是她那时常变动的精神状态的风信标而已。
• These two operations were undertaken by the UN in Africa after the end of the Cold War when the world system ( all the UN branches including, of course, UN peacekeeping body) was under the whims and caprices of a hegemonic power.
  当世界体系（包括联合国所有分支机构，当然，联合国维和机构）是一个霸权下的率性和反复无常的冷战结束后，联合国在非洲开展了这两项操作。