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.
  1. 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。
  2. ...a reminder of the follies of war.
     提醒人们战争之愚蠢的东西
• (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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The follies of Finance and failures of regulation bear the blame.
  金融蠢行和监管失败难辞其咎。
• Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
  ◎从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。
• All her follies have, we believe, been told.
  我们相信，她干的蠢事已经全部说了。
• Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
  愚蠢和无聊，荒唐和矛盾，这的确叫我觉得好笑，我自己也承认，我只要能够加以讥笑，总是加以讥笑。
• 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。
• She's 87 years old, and a one-time member of the Ziegfeld Follies
  她现年87岁，曾经是齐格菲尔时事讽刺剧团的成员之一。
• 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。