playthings

英 [ˈpleɪθɪŋz]

美 [ˈpleɪˌθɪŋz]

n.  玩物; 玩乐对象; 玩具
plaything的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 玩具；供玩耍的东西
  Aplaythingis a toy or other object that a child plays with.
  1. ...an untidy garden scattered with children's playthings.
     到处散落着玩具的凌乱的花园
• N-COUNT 玩物；被玩弄的人
  If you say that someone is treating you as aplaything, you think that they are using you for their amusement or advantage, and do not care about you.
  1. ...an unfaithful husband who treated women as playthings...
     把女人当玩物的不忠丈夫
  2. He would not allow anyone to make him into a political plaything for their own ends.
     他不会允许任何人为了达到其自身目的把他变成政治玩物。

双语例句

• Life's play is swift, Life's playthings fall behind one by one and are forgotten.
  生命的游戏一下子就结束，生命的玩具一件件遗落在后面，然后都被忘记掉。
• The results support an earlier study at Texas A& M University, with vervet monkeys, which also showed a distinct preference among male monkeys for "masculine" playthings.
  这项结果支持了之前德克萨斯农工大学的一项研究。那项研究是用长尾猴做的实验，实验结果同样表明了公猴子对“男性化”玩具有着明显的偏好。
• This is now the most dramatic example of an alien plant invader affecting wildlife in Britain, 'he told The Observer. There smiles the Divine Child among his playthings of unmeaning clouds and ephemeral lights and shadows.
  「这是外来入侵树种影响英国野生动物的最戏剧化例子。那圣洁的孩子在乏味的云层和倏忽变幻的浮光掠影中嬉戏微笑。
• I seek out costly playthings, and gather lumps of gold and silver.
  我寻求贵重的玩具，收集金块与银块。
• Despite its fame, the Rubik's Cube has yet to be inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame, where other classic playthings such as the Slinky and the Etch-a-Sketch are enthroned.
  尽管魔方声名远播，但它尚未入选美国国家玩具名人堂，而其他经典玩具如机灵鬼弹簧和神奇画板都已榜上有名。
• The warlord treated his concubines as graceful playthings.
  那个军阀把他的小妾当作美丽的玩物。
• At her campsite, Sheehan said each one was a valuable human life and an indispensable member of his or her family, so they should not be the "playthings for the people who lust for greed and power."
  希恩在克劳福德农场外的营地说：“每个人都是一个有价值的生命。每个人都是其家庭不可或缺的一员，而不是那些追求贪欲和权力的人的玩物。”
• Returning boomerangs were used only in eastern and western Australia as playthings, in tournament competition, and by hunters to imitate hawks for driving flocks of game birds into nets.
  可飞回的飞标曾在东澳大利亚及西澳大利亚流行，有时作为玩具，用于比赛，有时猎手用它仿真飞鹰，以驱逐鸟群，使之进入网里。
• Games and playthings; gymnastic and sporting articles not included in other classes; decorations for Christmas trees.
  娱乐品及玩具；不属别类的体育及运动用品，圣诞树用装饰品。
• The learning and morality the school had given me were just jokes, playthings for people with full stomachs and time to spare.
  学校里教给我的本事与道德都是笑话，都是吃饱了没事的玩艺。