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

• They had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.
  他们不仅具有了与其他老年人一模一样的所有毛病，而且因为那可怕的永生不死的未来，他们还会出现更多的毛病。
• Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that they themselves commit.
  爱情是盲目的，恋人看不见自己做的傻事。
• 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。
• Be the bigger man and apologise for your follies.
  做有品行的人，为自己的愚蠢道歉吧。
• We will not trouble ourselves here with the names and follies, the crimes and intrigues, of its tale of emperors.
  这里我们不谈关于帝王们的名号、昏庸、罪恶和阴谋等等的故事。
• 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。
• Peg used to be in the dog and pony follies.
  杰姆过去一直是坏蛋和蠢货。
• All her follies have, we believe, been told.
  我们相信，她干的蠢事已经全部说了。
• 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。