plaything

英 [ˈpleɪθɪŋ]

美 [ˈpleɪθɪŋ]

n.  玩物; 玩乐对象; 玩具

复数：playthings　

BNC.20450 / COCA.21197

牛津词典

noun

• 玩物；玩乐对象
  a person or thing that you treat like a toy, without really caring about them or it
  1. She was an intelligent woman who refused to be a rich man's plaything.
     她是个有头脑的女性，拒不肯做富人的玩物。
• 玩具
  a toy
  1. The teddy bear was his favourite plaything.
     软毛玩具熊是他最心爱的玩具。

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。

英英释义

noun

• an artifact designed to be played with
  Synonym:toy

双语例句

• It is better for the poor little plaything to die so, than to live.
  对那可怜的小玩偶来说，这样死去仍比活着好。
• Though the prince fancied himself as a military man the regiment was a plaything, more fashion accessory than fighting unit.
  虽然王子把自己想象成一个军人，但他还是把轻装龙骑兵看成一种玩物，它的时尚配饰要远远重于战争气息。
• Are we the plaything of fate?
  我们是命运的玩物吗？
• Hong Kong's favorite new resident, a giant inflatable duck, took a turn for the worse on Wednesday, looking less like an oversized lovable plaything and more like an unappetizing fried egg on the water.
  香港最受欢迎的新市民一只巨大的充气橡皮鸭在周三时表现不佳。此时的它看起来不那么像一个巨型的可爱玩具，而像漂浮在水上让人食欲全无的煎蛋。
• The King's daughter was delighted to see her pretty plaything once more, and picked it up, and ran away with it.
  小公主重又见到了自己心爱的玩具，心里别提有多高兴了。她把金球拣了起来，撒腿就跑。别跑！
• A large wooden, plastic, or metal ring, especially one used as a plaything or for trained animals to jump through. They are suitable for high-end automotive OEM, plastic coatings, coil coatings and so on.
  环大的木制，塑料或金属圈，尤指用作玩具或训练动物从中跳过主要用于汽车涂料、卷材涂料、高档塑胶漆、玩具漆和各种高档油墨等行业。
• But somewhere between the top of the hill and the trees below, mother fox lost her plaything.
  但是在山顶和山下的树林之间，狐狸妈妈丢掉了她的玩具。
• There was no more reason why she should remember him with any interest in such an altered state of things, than any plaything she ever had.
  世事沧桑，在完全改变了的情况下，她没有什么理由要比对一个她曾经有过的玩具更多地记得他；不会的，那时在她的记忆中，他可能还不如玩具呢。
• What a pretty plaything! Could you tell me how to make it?
  这玩艺做得不错，能教一下我吗？
• So, the mind, the brain, is no longer a plaything of thought.
  因此，心智，头脑，不再是思想的一个玩物。