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

• The pessimist feels like fate's plaything and moves slowly.
  悲观者则感到自己只能由命运摆布，行动拖拉。
• 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。
• Fox gave up and turned back for her plaything.
  狐狸追了一会只好放弃，回头去找她的玩具。
• 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。
• He wanted to have me as a plaything for some time longer.
  他还想把我当作玩物耍一阵子。
• 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？
• Luck is a star. Money s a plaything. Time is a storyteller.& Carl Sandburg
  运气是星宿。金钱是玩物。时间是故事讲述者。&桑德堡
• The United Nations has become the plaything of the major powers.
  联合国成了几个大国的玩物。
• However, the children's favorite plaything of.
  这可是孩子们最喜欢的玩物了。
• There be plaything for all ages; the plaything of old people be to talk of the plaything of their youth.
  每一个年龄都有玩具；老人的玩具是聊聊他们年轻时的玩具。