中文翻译与英英解释

n.
〔用作单数〕活报剧；时事讽刺剧。

a revue with elaborate costuming

Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the "Weismann's Follies," a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies), that played in that theatre between the World Wars.

例句与用法

It will be folly to curse your stars .
咒诅自己的命运是愚蠢的。

Answer a fool according to his folly .
按愚人的蠢话回答愚人。

They are imbrued with the follies of youth .
他们满脑子都是年轻人的傻念头。

We carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom .
聪明一世，糊涂一时。

Anger rests in the bosom of folly .
怒火常栖息于愚者之腹中。

He will suffer for his folly .
他会因自己的蠢行而受到惩罚。

The reader is to enjoy the pioneers folly .
读者要想充分领略《拓荒者》的意趣。

All her follies have, we believe, been told .
我们相信，她干的蠢事已经全部说了。

Some amuse themselves in folly .
有些人以干荒唐事取乐。

Is confidence wisdom or folly ?
有信心是聪明还是愚笨？