Definition of folly in English:

folly

nounPlural folliesˈfɒliˈfɑli

1mass noun Lack of good sense; foolishness.
愚笨，愚蠢
an act of sheer folly
绝对愚蠢之举。
Example sentencesExamples
- Why, it is sheer folly to attempt to predict who will prevail with so much uncertainty pervading the future.
- How much publicity should that act of folly generate, in comparison to the meaningless Plame farce?
- The Soviet colonisation of the Arctic was an act of extreme folly and cruelty.
- So then, do you think, Bill, the newspapers are just committing an exercise in folly, or is it good journalism?
- It seems to me that for a country of any size, nineteen political parties is sheer folly.
- There is no future in trying to find a middle road between folly and common sense.
- But to attack him now, at a time when the Middle East is already on the brink of full-scale war, would be an act of terrible folly.
- By an act of unthinking folly I used them as an example yesterday.
- What sheer folly it must be to fall in love if it makes one talk in such a silly manner.
- With a minute left, and the score 2-2, Phil Neville committed an act of folly in the penalty box and Ganea scored from the spot.
- The residents of Tortuga put up with a lot, but it was sheer folly to fly the colors in a town.
- But, having said that, some of the ways that people have been dispersed into the community have been sheer folly.
- But to commit America to a broader role while remaining blindly ignorant of the ultimate cost of doing so is sheer folly.
- Being booked for rejoicing in a goal is sheer folly in itself.
- That act of folly summed up 30 minutes of dire rugby, but also seemed to spark Scotland into some semblance of life.
- The desire for rationalising and centralising local services is sheer folly and will lead to more traffic, more travelling and deprived communities.
- A luxury player, great to add to a winning team, his purchase by City was the ultimate act of folly.
- ‘It would be folly to abandon a national asset unless we were sure it had outlived its usefulness,’ he says passionately.
- This is sheer folly and reveals a lack of understanding of the power of saving regularly from an early age.
- If anything, he has unwittingly sounded the sirens to launch a war without end by this single act of presidential folly.
1. 1.1count noun A foolish act, idea, or practice.
  蠢行，傻念头，蠢事
  the follies of youth
  青年人的傻事。
  Example sentencesExamples
  While the teens spend a lost weekend in the countryside, the director makes lazy points about the follies of youth.
  But one man's notion of a masterwork may be another's idea of a folly.
  This is an enormous folly on behalf of the government.
  It is a peculiar folly, under these circumstances, for the rich to seek greater riches by selling weapons to the poor.
  It is a suicidal folly to condone, much less encourage, any anarchic agenda, overlooking its disruptiveness in the national context.
  To the average young whippersnapper of today, this would be most risible, but I care not for the follies of youth.
  Political blunders and economic follies are depressing the Japanese economy.
  He is a pragmatist to the last breath and would never have indulged a personal folly, like Bacon did, in appointing a governor.
  True enough, Deacon, we're not about to start throwing stones at the political follies of one's youth.
  I will conspicuously recycle the cans and glasses and papers, even though I suspect it's all a folly.
  Disregard of the movements and sentiments developing around them was a primary folly.
  They've committed one great folly in the mess-up with the dig tree.
  Right now, there was nothing to do but mope over her past follies and errors.
  It's a good idea to show the follies of socialism in pictorial form and he does have some good pictures.
  It is almost a folly to expect complete truth and sincerity among political parties and that too in today's dirty politics.
  It cries out to be exploited as a grand folly, an emblem of muddle, hype and plain foolishness with enormous entertainment potential.
  It is one of the follies of youth, indeed of all ages.
  We are full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other for our follies.
  In truth, it is a folly of gigantic proportions.
  Pensioners are being rack-rated to pay for the follies of this foolish Government.
  Synonyms
  foolishness, foolhardiness, stupidity, idiocy, imbecility, silliness, inanity, lunacy, madness, rashness, recklessness, imprudence, injudiciousness, lack of caution, lack of foresight, lack of sense, irrationality, illogicality, irresponsibility, thoughtlessness, indiscretion
  informal craziness
  British informal daftness
2A costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, especially a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park.
（仅供观赏的）巨资兴建的无用建筑，华而不实的建筑（尤指大花园或公园中的塔或仿哥特式遗迹）
Example sentencesExamples
- Later it made me think of follies built in the gardens of the English houses of the rich and often featuring in Agatha Christie plays.
- Several folly towers and temples once formed part of the landscape at Emo.
- To others it is simply an artistic folly on a bleak Lanarkshire hillside.
- Why is this council contemplating spending £2 million of our tax on an unnecessary folly?
- It was also from Ruisdael that 18 th-century Britain inherited its love of gothic ruins and haunted follies.
- It is home to a folly tower, called the Summer House, built to commemorate the Reform Bill of 1832.
- The monument to the seventh Earl continued the tradition of follies and garden buildings begun in the 18th century.
- It's a fascinating folly in the woods, up a hill, offering stunning views over London, out into Kent, and across to Essex and beyond.
- A building can be symbolic of power, but it can also be a folly.
- There was also a folly and a burial ground, so all in all more sinister than friendly, in my opinion.
- Known as the Temple de l' Amour, the folly is now the client's summer residence.
- Now we have a swimming pool, a marvellous garden and a splendid folly.
- Apart from formal diversity, the symbolic and cultural role of the folly is also important.
- This treatment of the hydrotherapy unit transcends function: the building is a kind of garden folly in a landscape of cars.
- The Strickland's other main legacy is much easier to spot: the fine folly tower, Carnaby Temple, sited atop of a nearby hill.
- Built in 1843 in the style of a Greek temple, the folly is a Grade II Listed Building.
- Wildly elaborate architectural follies, ruins and waterworks are featured in two 1982 drawings, both titled Haunted Village.
- At present, architectural production often seems to be of two quite dissimilar kinds: sheds and follies.
- The most dominant garden feature is a folly with an interesting provenance.
- Ruins themselves are reminiscent of purpose-built folly gardens of the eighteenth century.
3A theatrical revue with glamorous female performers.
（迷人女演员表演的）时事讽刺剧
in names the Ziegfeld Follies
齐格菲尔德时事讽刺剧。
Example sentencesExamples
- Along with Follies, the festival screens Wiseman's Law and Order and Domestic Violence.
- He was 15 when he saw his first Broadway production, Follies, and 32 years later he can still recall every moment ‘scene by scene.’
- But Spielberg's strong sense of nostalgia and his increasing sense of irony makes Follies, a forever ‘troubled’ show, a perfect match.
- Minto adult skaters have performed in every edition of the Follies that has been presented.
- Emma Clifford comes direct to the national tour of Chicago from playing ‘Young Salle’ in the recent London production of Follies.
- Instead of going back to the chorus, she took to the road, playing the lead roles in classic musicals like Can-Can, Gypsy, and Follies.
- I would have been very sorry indeed to have missed the latest reincarnation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies.
- As if the Paper Mill had blown its funds on Follies, this Gypsy, in sets and costumes that seem underfinanced, also looks underimagined.
- Opening night for the Gaslight Follies is Saturday, May 18.
- Her sister Doris had been employed to rehearse a group of dancing girls for a road show of the Follies for producer Ned Wayburn.
- ‘I'm one of the lucky ones,’ she says of performing in the Follies.
- Drag Follies will be showing at the Arts Theatre Club in Patterson Street until May 28.
- The women, now much older, reminisce, rekindle old friendships, open old wounds, and perform some of their Follies numbers.
- The depression wiped out not only the Follies, but also the Vaudeville touring circuit.
- The Palace Grand Prize is the title of this year's instalment of the Gaslight Follies at the Palace Grand Theatre in Dawson City.
- I recalled seeing him in a private screening of ‘Pep Follies of 1930,’ strumming his vulgar ukulele and screeching ‘Good Night Sweetheart.’

Origin

Middle English: from Old French folie 'madness', in modern French also 'delight, favourite dwelling' (compare with sense 2), from fol 'fool, foolish'.

Rhymes

Barbirolli, brolly, collie, dolly, golly, holly, jolly, lolly, Mollie, molly, nollie, Ollie, polly, poly, trolley, volley, wally

Definition of folly in US English:

folly

nounˈfälēˈfɑli

1Lack of good sense; foolishness.
愚笨，愚蠢
an act of sheer folly
绝对愚蠢之举。
Example sentencesExamples
- But to attack him now, at a time when the Middle East is already on the brink of full-scale war, would be an act of terrible folly.
- What sheer folly it must be to fall in love if it makes one talk in such a silly manner.
- This is sheer folly and reveals a lack of understanding of the power of saving regularly from an early age.
- A luxury player, great to add to a winning team, his purchase by City was the ultimate act of folly.
- How much publicity should that act of folly generate, in comparison to the meaningless Plame farce?
- With a minute left, and the score 2-2, Phil Neville committed an act of folly in the penalty box and Ganea scored from the spot.
- There is no future in trying to find a middle road between folly and common sense.
- The residents of Tortuga put up with a lot, but it was sheer folly to fly the colors in a town.
- The desire for rationalising and centralising local services is sheer folly and will lead to more traffic, more travelling and deprived communities.
- If anything, he has unwittingly sounded the sirens to launch a war without end by this single act of presidential folly.
- The Soviet colonisation of the Arctic was an act of extreme folly and cruelty.
- Being booked for rejoicing in a goal is sheer folly in itself.
- So then, do you think, Bill, the newspapers are just committing an exercise in folly, or is it good journalism?
- It seems to me that for a country of any size, nineteen political parties is sheer folly.
- But to commit America to a broader role while remaining blindly ignorant of the ultimate cost of doing so is sheer folly.
- Why, it is sheer folly to attempt to predict who will prevail with so much uncertainty pervading the future.
- By an act of unthinking folly I used them as an example yesterday.
- ‘It would be folly to abandon a national asset unless we were sure it had outlived its usefulness,’ he says passionately.
- That act of folly summed up 30 minutes of dire rugby, but also seemed to spark Scotland into some semblance of life.
- But, having said that, some of the ways that people have been dispersed into the community have been sheer folly.
1. 1.1 A foolish act, idea, or practice.
  蠢行，傻念头，蠢事
  the follies of youth
  青年人的傻事。
  Example sentencesExamples
  True enough, Deacon, we're not about to start throwing stones at the political follies of one's youth.
  It's a good idea to show the follies of socialism in pictorial form and he does have some good pictures.
  He is a pragmatist to the last breath and would never have indulged a personal folly, like Bacon did, in appointing a governor.
  It is a peculiar folly, under these circumstances, for the rich to seek greater riches by selling weapons to the poor.
  Political blunders and economic follies are depressing the Japanese economy.
  They've committed one great folly in the mess-up with the dig tree.
  To the average young whippersnapper of today, this would be most risible, but I care not for the follies of youth.
  In truth, it is a folly of gigantic proportions.
  It is almost a folly to expect complete truth and sincerity among political parties and that too in today's dirty politics.
  It cries out to be exploited as a grand folly, an emblem of muddle, hype and plain foolishness with enormous entertainment potential.
  Right now, there was nothing to do but mope over her past follies and errors.
  It is a suicidal folly to condone, much less encourage, any anarchic agenda, overlooking its disruptiveness in the national context.
  Pensioners are being rack-rated to pay for the follies of this foolish Government.
  It is one of the follies of youth, indeed of all ages.
  We are full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other for our follies.
  While the teens spend a lost weekend in the countryside, the director makes lazy points about the follies of youth.
  But one man's notion of a masterwork may be another's idea of a folly.
  This is an enormous folly on behalf of the government.
  Disregard of the movements and sentiments developing around them was a primary folly.
  I will conspicuously recycle the cans and glasses and papers, even though I suspect it's all a folly.
  Synonyms
  foolishness, foolhardiness, stupidity, idiocy, imbecility, silliness, inanity, lunacy, madness, rashness, recklessness, imprudence, injudiciousness, lack of caution, lack of foresight, lack of sense, irrationality, illogicality, irresponsibility, thoughtlessness, indiscretion
2A costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, especially a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park.
（仅供观赏的）巨资兴建的无用建筑，华而不实的建筑（尤指大花园或公园中的塔或仿哥特式遗迹）
Example sentencesExamples
- At present, architectural production often seems to be of two quite dissimilar kinds: sheds and follies.
- The most dominant garden feature is a folly with an interesting provenance.
- The Strickland's other main legacy is much easier to spot: the fine folly tower, Carnaby Temple, sited atop of a nearby hill.
- Why is this council contemplating spending £2 million of our tax on an unnecessary folly?
- Apart from formal diversity, the symbolic and cultural role of the folly is also important.
- It's a fascinating folly in the woods, up a hill, offering stunning views over London, out into Kent, and across to Essex and beyond.
- Known as the Temple de l' Amour, the folly is now the client's summer residence.
- There was also a folly and a burial ground, so all in all more sinister than friendly, in my opinion.
- The monument to the seventh Earl continued the tradition of follies and garden buildings begun in the 18th century.
- It was also from Ruisdael that 18 th-century Britain inherited its love of gothic ruins and haunted follies.
- Wildly elaborate architectural follies, ruins and waterworks are featured in two 1982 drawings, both titled Haunted Village.
- Now we have a swimming pool, a marvellous garden and a splendid folly.
- Ruins themselves are reminiscent of purpose-built folly gardens of the eighteenth century.
- A building can be symbolic of power, but it can also be a folly.
- This treatment of the hydrotherapy unit transcends function: the building is a kind of garden folly in a landscape of cars.
- Several folly towers and temples once formed part of the landscape at Emo.
- Later it made me think of follies built in the gardens of the English houses of the rich and often featuring in Agatha Christie plays.
- Built in 1843 in the style of a Greek temple, the folly is a Grade II Listed Building.
- To others it is simply an artistic folly on a bleak Lanarkshire hillside.
- It is home to a folly tower, called the Summer House, built to commemorate the Reform Bill of 1832.
3A theatrical revue with glamorous female performers.
（迷人女演员表演的）时事讽刺剧
in names the Ziegfeld Follies
齐格菲尔德时事讽刺剧。
Example sentencesExamples
- Instead of going back to the chorus, she took to the road, playing the lead roles in classic musicals like Can-Can, Gypsy, and Follies.
- I would have been very sorry indeed to have missed the latest reincarnation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies.
- Along with Follies, the festival screens Wiseman's Law and Order and Domestic Violence.
- Opening night for the Gaslight Follies is Saturday, May 18.
- Her sister Doris had been employed to rehearse a group of dancing girls for a road show of the Follies for producer Ned Wayburn.
- Drag Follies will be showing at the Arts Theatre Club in Patterson Street until May 28.
- Emma Clifford comes direct to the national tour of Chicago from playing ‘Young Salle’ in the recent London production of Follies.
- He was 15 when he saw his first Broadway production, Follies, and 32 years later he can still recall every moment ‘scene by scene.’
- But Spielberg's strong sense of nostalgia and his increasing sense of irony makes Follies, a forever ‘troubled’ show, a perfect match.
- Minto adult skaters have performed in every edition of the Follies that has been presented.
- I recalled seeing him in a private screening of ‘Pep Follies of 1930,’ strumming his vulgar ukulele and screeching ‘Good Night Sweetheart.’
- ‘I'm one of the lucky ones,’ she says of performing in the Follies.
- The women, now much older, reminisce, rekindle old friendships, open old wounds, and perform some of their Follies numbers.
- The depression wiped out not only the Follies, but also the Vaudeville touring circuit.
- The Palace Grand Prize is the title of this year's instalment of the Gaslight Follies at the Palace Grand Theatre in Dawson City.
- As if the Paper Mill had blown its funds on Follies, this Gypsy, in sets and costumes that seem underfinanced, also looks underimagined.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French folie ‘madness’, in modern French also ‘delight, favorite dwelling’ (compare with folly (sense 2)), from fol ‘fool, foolish’.

词汇	folly
释义	Definition of folly in English: folly nounPlural folliesˈfɒliˈfɑli 1mass noun Lack of good sense; foolishness. 愚笨，愚蠢 an act of sheer folly 绝对愚蠢之举。 Example sentencesExamples Why, it is sheer folly to attempt to predict who will prevail with so much uncertainty pervading the future. How much publicity should that act of folly generate, in comparison to the meaningless Plame farce? The Soviet colonisation of the Arctic was an act of extreme folly and cruelty. So then, do you think, Bill, the newspapers are just committing an exercise in folly, or is it good journalism? It seems to me that for a country of any size, nineteen political parties is sheer folly. There is no future in trying to find a middle road between folly and common sense. But to attack him now, at a time when the Middle East is already on the brink of full-scale war, would be an act of terrible folly. By an act of unthinking folly I used them as an example yesterday. What sheer folly it must be to fall in love if it makes one talk in such a silly manner. With a minute left, and the score 2-2, Phil Neville committed an act of folly in the penalty box and Ganea scored from the spot. The residents of Tortuga put up with a lot, but it was sheer folly to fly the colors in a town. But, having said that, some of the ways that people have been dispersed into the community have been sheer folly. But to commit America to a broader role while remaining blindly ignorant of the ultimate cost of doing so is sheer folly. Being booked for rejoicing in a goal is sheer folly in itself. That act of folly summed up 30 minutes of dire rugby, but also seemed to spark Scotland into some semblance of life. The desire for rationalising and centralising local services is sheer folly and will lead to more traffic, more travelling and deprived communities. A luxury player, great to add to a winning team, his purchase by City was the ultimate act of folly. ‘It would be folly to abandon a national asset unless we were sure it had outlived its usefulness,’ he says passionately. This is sheer folly and reveals a lack of understanding of the power of saving regularly from an early age. If anything, he has unwittingly sounded the sirens to launch a war without end by this single act of presidential folly. 1.1count noun A foolish act, idea, or practice. 蠢行，傻念头，蠢事 the follies of youth 青年人的傻事。 Example sentencesExamples While the teens spend a lost weekend in the countryside, the director makes lazy points about the follies of youth. But one man's notion of a masterwork may be another's idea of a folly. This is an enormous folly on behalf of the government. It is a peculiar folly, under these circumstances, for the rich to seek greater riches by selling weapons to the poor. It is a suicidal folly to condone, much less encourage, any anarchic agenda, overlooking its disruptiveness in the national context. To the average young whippersnapper of today, this would be most risible, but I care not for the follies of youth. Political blunders and economic follies are depressing the Japanese economy. He is a pragmatist to the last breath and would never have indulged a personal folly, like Bacon did, in appointing a governor. True enough, Deacon, we're not about to start throwing stones at the political follies of one's youth. I will conspicuously recycle the cans and glasses and papers, even though I suspect it's all a folly. Disregard of the movements and sentiments developing around them was a primary folly. They've committed one great folly in the mess-up with the dig tree. Right now, there was nothing to do but mope over her past follies and errors. It's a good idea to show the follies of socialism in pictorial form and he does have some good pictures. It is almost a folly to expect complete truth and sincerity among political parties and that too in today's dirty politics. It cries out to be exploited as a grand folly, an emblem of muddle, hype and plain foolishness with enormous entertainment potential. It is one of the follies of youth, indeed of all ages. We are full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other for our follies. In truth, it is a folly of gigantic proportions. Pensioners are being rack-rated to pay for the follies of this foolish Government. Synonyms foolishness, foolhardiness, stupidity, idiocy, imbecility, silliness, inanity, lunacy, madness, rashness, recklessness, imprudence, injudiciousness, lack of caution, lack of foresight, lack of sense, irrationality, illogicality, irresponsibility, thoughtlessness, indiscretion informal craziness British informal daftness 2A costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, especially a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park. （仅供观赏的）巨资兴建的无用建筑，华而不实的建筑（尤指大花园或公园中的塔或仿哥特式遗迹） Example sentencesExamples Later it made me think of follies built in the gardens of the English houses of the rich and often featuring in Agatha Christie plays. Several folly towers and temples once formed part of the landscape at Emo. To others it is simply an artistic folly on a bleak Lanarkshire hillside. Why is this council contemplating spending £2 million of our tax on an unnecessary folly? It was also from Ruisdael that 18 th-century Britain inherited its love of gothic ruins and haunted follies. It is home to a folly tower, called the Summer House, built to commemorate the Reform Bill of 1832. The monument to the seventh Earl continued the tradition of follies and garden buildings begun in the 18th century. It's a fascinating folly in the woods, up a hill, offering stunning views over London, out into Kent, and across to Essex and beyond. A building can be symbolic of power, but it can also be a folly. There was also a folly and a burial ground, so all in all more sinister than friendly, in my opinion. Known as the Temple de l' Amour, the folly is now the client's summer residence. Now we have a swimming pool, a marvellous garden and a splendid folly. Apart from formal diversity, the symbolic and cultural role of the folly is also important. This treatment of the hydrotherapy unit transcends function: the building is a kind of garden folly in a landscape of cars. The Strickland's other main legacy is much easier to spot: the fine folly tower, Carnaby Temple, sited atop of a nearby hill. Built in 1843 in the style of a Greek temple, the folly is a Grade II Listed Building. Wildly elaborate architectural follies, ruins and waterworks are featured in two 1982 drawings, both titled Haunted Village. At present, architectural production often seems to be of two quite dissimilar kinds: sheds and follies. The most dominant garden feature is a folly with an interesting provenance. Ruins themselves are reminiscent of purpose-built folly gardens of the eighteenth century. 3A theatrical revue with glamorous female performers. （迷人女演员表演的）时事讽刺剧 in names the Ziegfeld Follies 齐格菲尔德时事讽刺剧。 Example sentencesExamples Along with Follies, the festival screens Wiseman's Law and Order and Domestic Violence. He was 15 when he saw his first Broadway production, Follies, and 32 years later he can still recall every moment ‘scene by scene.’ But Spielberg's strong sense of nostalgia and his increasing sense of irony makes Follies, a forever ‘troubled’ show, a perfect match. Minto adult skaters have performed in every edition of the Follies that has been presented. Emma Clifford comes direct to the national tour of Chicago from playing ‘Young Salle’ in the recent London production of Follies. Instead of going back to the chorus, she took to the road, playing the lead roles in classic musicals like Can-Can, Gypsy, and Follies. I would have been very sorry indeed to have missed the latest reincarnation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies. As if the Paper Mill had blown its funds on Follies, this Gypsy, in sets and costumes that seem underfinanced, also looks underimagined. Opening night for the Gaslight Follies is Saturday, May 18. Her sister Doris had been employed to rehearse a group of dancing girls for a road show of the Follies for producer Ned Wayburn. ‘I'm one of the lucky ones,’ she says of performing in the Follies. Drag Follies will be showing at the Arts Theatre Club in Patterson Street until May 28. The women, now much older, reminisce, rekindle old friendships, open old wounds, and perform some of their Follies numbers. The depression wiped out not only the Follies, but also the Vaudeville touring circuit. The Palace Grand Prize is the title of this year's instalment of the Gaslight Follies at the Palace Grand Theatre in Dawson City. I recalled seeing him in a private screening of ‘Pep Follies of 1930,’ strumming his vulgar ukulele and screeching ‘Good Night Sweetheart.’ Origin Middle English: from Old French folie 'madness', in modern French also 'delight, favourite dwelling' (compare with sense 2), from fol 'fool, foolish'. Rhymes Barbirolli, brolly, collie, dolly, golly, holly, jolly, lolly, Mollie, molly, nollie, Ollie, polly, poly, trolley, volley, wally Definition of folly in US English: folly nounˈfälēˈfɑli 1Lack of good sense; foolishness. 愚笨，愚蠢 an act of sheer folly 绝对愚蠢之举。 Example sentencesExamples But to attack him now, at a time when the Middle East is already on the brink of full-scale war, would be an act of terrible folly. What sheer folly it must be to fall in love if it makes one talk in such a silly manner. This is sheer folly and reveals a lack of understanding of the power of saving regularly from an early age. A luxury player, great to add to a winning team, his purchase by City was the ultimate act of folly. How much publicity should that act of folly generate, in comparison to the meaningless Plame farce? With a minute left, and the score 2-2, Phil Neville committed an act of folly in the penalty box and Ganea scored from the spot. There is no future in trying to find a middle road between folly and common sense. The residents of Tortuga put up with a lot, but it was sheer folly to fly the colors in a town. The desire for rationalising and centralising local services is sheer folly and will lead to more traffic, more travelling and deprived communities. If anything, he has unwittingly sounded the sirens to launch a war without end by this single act of presidential folly. The Soviet colonisation of the Arctic was an act of extreme folly and cruelty. Being booked for rejoicing in a goal is sheer folly in itself. So then, do you think, Bill, the newspapers are just committing an exercise in folly, or is it good journalism? It seems to me that for a country of any size, nineteen political parties is sheer folly. But to commit America to a broader role while remaining blindly ignorant of the ultimate cost of doing so is sheer folly. Why, it is sheer folly to attempt to predict who will prevail with so much uncertainty pervading the future. By an act of unthinking folly I used them as an example yesterday. ‘It would be folly to abandon a national asset unless we were sure it had outlived its usefulness,’ he says passionately. That act of folly summed up 30 minutes of dire rugby, but also seemed to spark Scotland into some semblance of life. But, having said that, some of the ways that people have been dispersed into the community have been sheer folly. 1.1 A foolish act, idea, or practice. 蠢行，傻念头，蠢事 the follies of youth 青年人的傻事。 Example sentencesExamples True enough, Deacon, we're not about to start throwing stones at the political follies of one's youth. It's a good idea to show the follies of socialism in pictorial form and he does have some good pictures. He is a pragmatist to the last breath and would never have indulged a personal folly, like Bacon did, in appointing a governor. It is a peculiar folly, under these circumstances, for the rich to seek greater riches by selling weapons to the poor. Political blunders and economic follies are depressing the Japanese economy. They've committed one great folly in the mess-up with the dig tree. To the average young whippersnapper of today, this would be most risible, but I care not for the follies of youth. In truth, it is a folly of gigantic proportions. It is almost a folly to expect complete truth and sincerity among political parties and that too in today's dirty politics. It cries out to be exploited as a grand folly, an emblem of muddle, hype and plain foolishness with enormous entertainment potential. Right now, there was nothing to do but mope over her past follies and errors. It is a suicidal folly to condone, much less encourage, any anarchic agenda, overlooking its disruptiveness in the national context. Pensioners are being rack-rated to pay for the follies of this foolish Government. It is one of the follies of youth, indeed of all ages. We are full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other for our follies. While the teens spend a lost weekend in the countryside, the director makes lazy points about the follies of youth. But one man's notion of a masterwork may be another's idea of a folly. This is an enormous folly on behalf of the government. Disregard of the movements and sentiments developing around them was a primary folly. I will conspicuously recycle the cans and glasses and papers, even though I suspect it's all a folly. Synonyms foolishness, foolhardiness, stupidity, idiocy, imbecility, silliness, inanity, lunacy, madness, rashness, recklessness, imprudence, injudiciousness, lack of caution, lack of foresight, lack of sense, irrationality, illogicality, irresponsibility, thoughtlessness, indiscretion 2A costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, especially a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park. （仅供观赏的）巨资兴建的无用建筑，华而不实的建筑（尤指大花园或公园中的塔或仿哥特式遗迹） Example sentencesExamples At present, architectural production often seems to be of two quite dissimilar kinds: sheds and follies. The most dominant garden feature is a folly with an interesting provenance. The Strickland's other main legacy is much easier to spot: the fine folly tower, Carnaby Temple, sited atop of a nearby hill. Why is this council contemplating spending £2 million of our tax on an unnecessary folly? Apart from formal diversity, the symbolic and cultural role of the folly is also important. It's a fascinating folly in the woods, up a hill, offering stunning views over London, out into Kent, and across to Essex and beyond. Known as the Temple de l' Amour, the folly is now the client's summer residence. There was also a folly and a burial ground, so all in all more sinister than friendly, in my opinion. The monument to the seventh Earl continued the tradition of follies and garden buildings begun in the 18th century. It was also from Ruisdael that 18 th-century Britain inherited its love of gothic ruins and haunted follies. Wildly elaborate architectural follies, ruins and waterworks are featured in two 1982 drawings, both titled Haunted Village. Now we have a swimming pool, a marvellous garden and a splendid folly. Ruins themselves are reminiscent of purpose-built folly gardens of the eighteenth century. A building can be symbolic of power, but it can also be a folly. This treatment of the hydrotherapy unit transcends function: the building is a kind of garden folly in a landscape of cars. Several folly towers and temples once formed part of the landscape at Emo. Later it made me think of follies built in the gardens of the English houses of the rich and often featuring in Agatha Christie plays. Built in 1843 in the style of a Greek temple, the folly is a Grade II Listed Building. To others it is simply an artistic folly on a bleak Lanarkshire hillside. It is home to a folly tower, called the Summer House, built to commemorate the Reform Bill of 1832. 3A theatrical revue with glamorous female performers. （迷人女演员表演的）时事讽刺剧 in names the Ziegfeld Follies 齐格菲尔德时事讽刺剧。 Example sentencesExamples Instead of going back to the chorus, she took to the road, playing the lead roles in classic musicals like Can-Can, Gypsy, and Follies. I would have been very sorry indeed to have missed the latest reincarnation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies. Along with Follies, the festival screens Wiseman's Law and Order and Domestic Violence. Opening night for the Gaslight Follies is Saturday, May 18. Her sister Doris had been employed to rehearse a group of dancing girls for a road show of the Follies for producer Ned Wayburn. Drag Follies will be showing at the Arts Theatre Club in Patterson Street until May 28. Emma Clifford comes direct to the national tour of Chicago from playing ‘Young Salle’ in the recent London production of Follies. He was 15 when he saw his first Broadway production, Follies, and 32 years later he can still recall every moment ‘scene by scene.’ But Spielberg's strong sense of nostalgia and his increasing sense of irony makes Follies, a forever ‘troubled’ show, a perfect match. Minto adult skaters have performed in every edition of the Follies that has been presented. I recalled seeing him in a private screening of ‘Pep Follies of 1930,’ strumming his vulgar ukulele and screeching ‘Good Night Sweetheart.’ ‘I'm one of the lucky ones,’ she says of performing in the Follies. The women, now much older, reminisce, rekindle old friendships, open old wounds, and perform some of their Follies numbers. The depression wiped out not only the Follies, but also the Vaudeville touring circuit. The Palace Grand Prize is the title of this year's instalment of the Gaslight Follies at the Palace Grand Theatre in Dawson City. As if the Paper Mill had blown its funds on Follies, this Gypsy, in sets and costumes that seem underfinanced, also looks underimagined. Origin Middle English: from Old French folie ‘madness’, in modern French also ‘delight, favorite dwelling’ (compare with folly (sense 2)), from fol ‘fool, foolish’.
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