caprice
caprice 英 [kəˈpri:s] 美 [kəˈpris]
n. 任性，反复无常；随想曲，怪想
名词复数:caprices
- On a whim, he sold everything and left the city for the beautiful wilderness of Alaska, but his act of caprice felt a lot less whimsical when he realized how freezing cold Alaska is.
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- n. 任性，反复无常；随想曲，怪想
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1. All that anxiety, that spasm of expectation, her coldness and caprice, that last foot-race, and that horse there, that cursed horse—Oh, God!
那一切焦虑，那揪心的期待，她的冷漠与任性，那最后的奔跑，那匹马，那匹可恶的马——哎呀，天哪！
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2. If his own vanity, however, did not mislead him, he was the cause, his pride and caprice were the cause, of all that Jane had suffered, and still continued to suffer.
如果彬格莱先生本来并没有给虚荣心冲昏头脑，那么，吉英目前所受的种种痛苦，以及将来还要受下去的痛苦，都得归罪于他，归罪于他的傲慢和任性。
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3. Golovanov called this behavior "a sudden caprice, " though afterward some observers thought Gagarin was trying to muscle onto the flight to save his friend.
Golovanov称这一行为是“一次突发的任性行为，”后来的观察家们觉得当时加加林是想强行的执行这次飞行任务，以便挽救自己的朋友。
- caprice (n.) "sudden change or start of the mind without apparent motive," 1660s, from French caprice "whim" (16c.), from Italian capriccio "whim," originally "a shivering," a word of uncertain origin. Some old guesses from 19c. are that it is from capro "goat," with reference to frisking, from Latin capreolus "wild goat," or that the Italian word is connected with capo "head" + riccio "curl, frizzled," literally "hedgehog" (from Latin ericius). The notion in this case would be of the hair standing on end, hence the person shivering in fear.
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