vagary
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
— It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil, continually oozing up beneath the pressure of the strata above it.
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Something vague.
— to speak in vagaries
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An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.
— And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.
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词源
From Italian vagare (“wander”) and/or its source Latin vagārī (“to wander”), from Latin vagus (“wandering”). Later apparently reinterpreted in English as vague + -ery but without changing the spelling. By surface analysis, Latin vag(us) + -ary.
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