The irony is that fechner set about this huge mountain of rather hard-headed measurements for quite whimsical reasons .
讽刺的是fechner设立这么数量庞大而又非常冷静的测量竟是为了一个异想天开的理由。
Brothers and designers ronan and erwan bouroullec came up with an ingenious and exciting new way to store books and other objects and it 's a contemporary twist on a whimsical idea-clouds .
About twenty-five years ago ( as an example of long-term thinking ) , I had a whimsical investment idea : buy some cheap land and plant hardwood trees .
To most american politicians and lawyers , the idea of ever moving towards a more principles-based approach seems deeply " un-american " , since it could hand more power to a whimsical government at the expense of the individual .
Likewise , a number of students who hadn 't explored much beyond facebook discovered that they 'd have a better chance of finding future jobs by maintaining a professional presence on a site like linkedin , rather than simply highlighting their accomplishments alongside whimsical , social posts on facebook .
And responsibility , more often than not , may be leveled at the whimsical pronouncements of powerful religious leaders at extremist churches where christianity and traditional beliefs have usually combined to produce an entrenched belief in witchcraft .