willy-nilly
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編輯詞源
編輯源自will I, nill I(有時亦用ye或he代替I),意為「如果我希望,如果我不希望」,即「無論我希不希望」。參見will (「想要,希望」)、nill (「(棄用)不想,不願,不希望」)。[1]
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編輯willy-nilly (比較級 more willy-nilly,最高級 most willy-nilly)
- 無論(別人)想不想要;不管三七二十一;隨意,隨心所欲,輕易,只管
- 近義詞:(古舊) nilly-willy、nolens volens
- Some writers chasing money churn out novels willy-nilly.
- 一些只想着錢的作家就一股腦地寫一堆[劣質]小說。
- 1868, [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe, 譯者 Arthur Duke Coleridge, Egmont. A Tragedy. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, Act II,第 40 頁:
- Whenever I see a long handsome neck, willy nilly, the thought will come uppermost—What a capital neck for carving! Those cursed executions! One can't rid one's mind of them.
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- 1869年4月1日, A. A. D., 「Twelve Scenes in a Young Lady’s Life. No. IV. A Spring Ramble.」, 出自 The Young Englishwoman. A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty Needlework Patterns, 第 III 卷, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, […], →OCLC, stanza 1,第 220 頁,第 1 列:
- I'll own I'm very glad he's come— / To hide my feelings would be silly— / You see I'm not so shy as some, / My thoughts will come out "willy-nilly."
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- Template:RQ:Besant For Faith and Freedom
- 1895 January, Thomas Hardy, 「Hearts Insurgent」, 出自 Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 第 XC 卷, 第 DXXXVI 期, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, chapter VIII,第 194 頁,第 2 列:
- He says he shall come for me willy-nilly, and father and mother say I must have him! But I don't want to—because—because—I love you best!
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- Template:RQ:Huxley Ape and Essence
- 1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC,第 36 頁:
- The outer world is what we wake up to every morning of our lives, is the place where, willy-nilly, we must try to make our living.
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- 偶然地,隨機地
- The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where things happen willy-nilly.
- 小說《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》寫了一個有很多怪事發生的地方。
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編輯形容詞
編輯willy-nilly (比較級 more willy-nilly,最高級 most willy-nilly)
- 無論想不想都會發生的
- 近義詞:(古舊) nilly-willy
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編輯參考資料
編輯- ↑ 「willy-nilly, adv. and adj.」,OED Online ,Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,December 2015年; 「willy-nilly, adv.」,Lexico,Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press,2019–present年.