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。
• 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。
• The system's voracious pursuit of power and profit had turned foreign nations into enslaved colonies, and human beings into the playthings of economic forces beyond their control.
  这个体系对权力和利润贪婪的追求把其他国家变成了殖民地，人类进入了经济游戏，可这种力量却超出了他们的控制。
• If I consent to burn them, will you promise faithfully neither to send nor receive a letter again, nor a book ( for I perceive you have sent him books), nor locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings?
  如果我同意烧掉它们，你能诚实地答应不再送出或收进一封信，或者一本书（因为我看见你给他送过书），或者一卷头发，或者戒指，或者玩意儿？
• The warlord treated his concubines as graceful playthings.
  那个军阀把他的小妾当作美丽的玩物。
• When a child takes apart his toys, have him put them back together again to help satisfy his learning curiosity as well as to teach him respect for his playthings.
  当玩具被孩子分解时，父母可以劝孩子将其重组回原来的样子，满足孩子想要了解玩具构造的心理，同时学会重视东西。
• One day, as she inspected this drawer, I observed that the playthings, and trinkets which recently formed its contents, were transmuted into bits of folded paper.
  一天，她正在翻这个抽屉时，我看见最近放在里面的玩具和零碎全变成一张张折好的纸张了。
• 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。
• 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。
• Old Boys have their Playthings as well as young Ones; the Difference is only in the Price.
  老少都有自己的玩物，只是价格不同而已。