Word · Frequency #20450
plaything
玩具；玩物
a toy
- 1.
A thing or person intended for playing with.
供玩耍的东西或人；玩物。
- 2.
an artifact designed to be played with
设计用来玩的物品
- 3.
A person at the mercy of fate.
受命运摆布的人。
供玩耍的东西或人；玩物。；设计用来玩的物品；受命运摆布的人。；玩具；被玩弄的人
In use
The toddler treated the empty box as a plaything and sat inside it for an hour.
Please put your playthings back in the toy chest before dinner.
The dog found a squeaky ball and made it his favorite plaything.
a plaything for [someone]
plaything 是可数名词，指供人玩耍的玩具；用 for 引出使用者。
This stuffed bear is a plaything for the baby.
这只玩具熊是给婴儿玩的玩具。
make a plaything of [someone/something]
make a plaything of 是固定搭配，表示把某人或某事当作玩物随意摆布。
The powerful often make a plaything of the weak.
强者常常把弱者当玩物。
be the plaything of [someone/something]
be the plaything of 常用于比喻，指被动地受某人或某种力量支配。
Connections
Collocations
- plaything of fate
- 命运的玩物；受命运摆布的人
- He felt like a plaything of fate after losing his job twice in one year.一年内两次失业后，他觉得自己像是命运的玩物。
- plaything of the gods
- 众神的玩物；受神明捉弄的人
- The ancient Greeks saw human life as a plaything of the gods.古希腊人认为人类的生活是众神的玩物。
- a rich man's plaything
- 富人的玩物（指被当作玩物的人）
- She refused to be a rich man's plaything and left the party.她拒绝做富人的玩物，于是离开了聚会。
- children's playthings
- 儿童玩具
- The floor was covered with children's playthings.地板上散落着儿童玩具。
- mere plaything
- 仅仅是玩物；纯粹的玩物
- To the manager, the intern was a mere plaything in a corporate game.在经理眼里，这名实习生不过是公司游戏中的一个玩物。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 plaything 拆成 play（玩）和 thing（东西）：用来玩的东西就是玩具、玩物；被玩弄的人也叫 plaything。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：文学/正式写作、日常对话 plaything 比 toy 更正式、多带书面或文学色彩；日常对话中较少单独使用。表示“被玩弄的人”时，通常出现在正式或比喻性描写中。
Pronunciation & Spelling
plaything（/ˈpleɪˌθɪŋ/）由 play + thing 构成。末尾的 -thing 与 thing、swing、sing、ring 押韵（都含 /ɪŋ/）；something 也以 -thing 拼写，但重音在第一个音节，严格说与 plaything 的 /θɪŋ/ 不押韵。注意 play 的拼写与 plaything 开头相同，但读音 /pleɪ/ 与 -thing 不押韵。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.