caprice 的定义
- a sudden, unpredictable change, as of one's mind or the weather.
- a tendency to change one's mind without apparent or adequate motive; whimsicality; capriciousness: With the caprice of a despotic king, he alternated between kindness and cruelty.
- Music. capriccio.
caprice 近义词
sudden change of behavior
更多caprice例句
- Men's probable actions are calculated by the law of reason; but their performance is usually the result of caprice.
- He was an outlaw, hunted and despised, depending for his life on the caprice of a fickle-minded woman.
- The entertainment upon such occasions, may vary with the taste of the hostess, or the caprice of her guests.
- Now and then, from caprice, one was liberated; but the innocent and the guilty fell alike.
- All this gave him hope, and he knew, that when caprice permitted, she would be unrivalled as a companion.