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Перевод: whim
[существительное] прихоть ; причуда ; каприз ; блажь
Тезаурус:
- That is my point: you have cast aside the probability of future happiness on a whim.
- The whole "US" thing was absurd, it was a whim.
- This sounds like a satirical whim ahead of its time, and certainly well beneath its victim's cloud-capped head.
- If there were games to be played or work to be done or stories to be read it was always to Rachel that she would turn; Rachel who went out and came in when she said she would and said "yes" or "no", not from whim or temper, but with authority.
- "Work was undertaken on a whim rather than as a responsible use of time.
- In this moral vacuum, measuring things, giving numbers to things, gives a spurious comfort - the world is tamed and the conclusion is sanctioned by an order beyond human whim; it is value-free.
- The rest of the morning I might spend at the beach, in season, or in the park or a caf, reading or catching up on my correspondence, or chatting to friends and acquaintances, as the whim took me.
- Whim confirmed that tetra is not a feedstock for ICI's CFC alternative compounds, even though such captive use would be permissible under the protocol.
- It will not only knock us around on the slightest whim; but because of its size as a mature horse, it may become dangerous for us and others to handle.
- When Nora came she would get her to run up to the flat and root out that paste thing she'd once bought on a whim at Selfridges.
- Nice people in uniforms took care of my every whim.
- In the shape of a little old man, bent and stooping, with an old bag on his shoulder, he appeared and disappeared at whim, often through walls and machinery, and terrifying anyone who saw him.
- turned on the whim of a page.
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