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

• 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。
• Men should treat women as equals rather than as graceful playthings.
  男人应该把女人看作平等的人，不可当作美丽的玩物。
• 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。
• One way to find out is to look to the animal kingdom, where there are no gender-specific playthings.
  有一种方法可以找到答案&去动物王国看看吧，那里可没有可区分性别的玩具。
• He investigated insects, tree bark, leaves, ferns, seeds, and the like and made all of them his precious playthings.
  他曾调查过的昆虫，树皮，树叶，蕨类植物，种子，以及类似，并提出所有的人是他的贵重玩具。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their playthings.
  后来，它们采了叶子，放在它们的小玩具里。
• 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。”