He was forced to pander to her every whim.

她每次心血来潮他都不得不依随她。

We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco.

我们多少有些心血来潮地决定乘船去摩洛哥。

A still picture could only imply the existence of time, while time in a novel passed at the whim of the reader.

"一张静止的照片只是暗示了时间的存在，而小说中的时间则随着读者的幻想而流逝。

We bought the house on a whim.

我们一时冲动买了这所房子。

She hires and fires people at whim.

她随心所欲地雇用人和解雇人。

Her father had always indulged her every whim.

她的父亲总是对她什么奇怪的愿望都予以滿足。

Dozens of servants had catered to his every whim.

几十个仆人曾迎合他所有离奇的想法。

My duties seem to change daily at the whim of the boss.

我的职责似乎随着老板的兴致每天改变。

Don't start the transition on a whim.

不要草率地开始过渡流程。

Girl: I moved to California on a whim.

我一时冲动就去了一趟加利福尼亚。

On a whim, he called a manager he knew.

他突发奇想，给那里一个认识的经理打了电话。

Today's shopping was nothing but a whim.

今天出去购物纯属心血来潮。

Those people got married on a crazy romantic whim.

那些人被浪漫爱情一时冲昏了头而结婚。

We could decide what to watch, based on almost any whim.

我们可以根据随意产生的一个念头来决定看什么电影。

Emotions are notthings that you can just shut off on a whim.

情绪是不可能一下子驱除的。

In the digital age we are more free to take pictures at our whim.

在数码时代，我们能随心所欲的拍自己想拍的。

Some clients feel like you exist solely to cater to their every whim.

一些客户认为你应该完全迎合他们的反复无常。

How can something as important as belief be subject entirely to whim?

为什么像信念这么重要的东西会完全屈从于一时的兴致呢？

“On a whim, I wrote a couple of paragraphs and mailed them in, ” he wrote.

“一时兴起，我写了几章给他们寄了过去”他写道。

If you only pray about them once, they are not a desire, they are just a whim.

如果你只对它们祷告一次，它们不是一个愿望，它们只是一时兴起。

So on a whim my viola-playing girlfriend and I decided to put a quartet together.

一时冲动，我和我那拉中提琴的闺密决定组建一个四重奏组。

Under the new rules, credit-card companies can't jack up interest rates on a whim.

在新法案规定下，信用卡公司不能凭着心血来潮随意提高贷款利率。

However, some modern designers are whim, the aquarium tank into the interior furniture.

然而，有些现代设计师却突发奇想，把水族缸变成了室内家具。

An idle whim, I fear, Sir, 'was my answer;' or else an idle whim is going to spirit me away.

“恐怕是一种无聊的奇想，先生，”这是我的回答，“不然就是一种无聊的奇想又要诱使我走开。”

In the Mesopotamian stories, for example, the gods act capriciously, the gods act on a whim.

例如，在美索不达米亚的故事中，神肆意妄为，凭着一时的念头做事。

In these days of my leisure, it was perhaps the mere whim to collect them which had come upon me.

在我悠闲的那些日子，也许是因为一时的兴致，我要把产生在我心里的幻想收集起来。

On a whim, he decided to take a trip around the country to look up nearly a dozen old girlfriends.

一天他突发奇想，决定四处走走，去看看他那些接近一打的旧时女友。

Or people who have granted themselves the right to switch between these two identities on a whim?

还是说这些人觉得自己可以在这两种身份中随意转换呢？