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

• It's important to train your kitten early on not to bite, and that includes not using your hands as playthings.
  训练你的小猫早点停止咬人是很重要的，这还包括不让小猫把你的手当作玩具。
• The warlord treated his concubines as graceful playthings.
  那个军阀把他的小妾当作美丽的玩物。
• We don't send playthings!'cried Catherine, her pride overcoming her shame.
  “我们不送玩意儿，”凯瑟琳叫着，她的骄傲征服了她的羞耻。
• 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？
• 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。
• Life's play is swift, Life's playthings fall behind one by one and are forgotten.
  生命的游戏一下子就结束，生命的玩具一件件遗落在后面，然后都被忘记掉。
• 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。”
• Also, overindulged children also are not as challenged as children with fewer playthings to be more creative in their play.
  还有，玩具太多的孩子在玩的时候不如玩具少的孩子有创造性。
• 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。
• One day, as she inspected this drawer, I observed that the playthings, and trinkets which recently formed its contents, were transmuted into bits of folded paper.
  一天，她正在翻这个抽屉时，我看见最近放在里面的玩具和零碎全变成一张张折好的纸张了。