解释
- n. 多变;轻浮;轻率;不稳定
※ 提供单词"levity"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照,中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
levity 轻浮,轻佻
来自PIE*legwh,轻的,可举起的,词源同light,levitate.引申词义轻浮,轻佻。
英文词源
- levity (n.)
- "want of seriousness, frivolity," 1560s, from Latin levitatem (nominative levitas) "lightness, frivolity," from levis "light" in weight (see lever) + -ity.
例句和用法
- 1. His remarks injected a note of levity into the proceedings.
- 他的话将一丝轻率带入了议事过程中.
- 2. Your levity is unseemly at this time.
- 在这种场合,你的轻率举动是不得体的.
- 3. At the time, Arnold had disapproved of such levity.
- 那时候的阿诺德对这种轻浮行为很看不惯。
- 4. It was cruel levity in you to do that.
- 那本是你狠心轻薄的行为.
- 5. On this latter point he felt almost certain, knowing her freedom from levity of character.
- 这后一点他简直确信不疑, 因为他了解她的性格绝不是轻浮的.
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