" Perhaps it is what the books call 'a passing fancy'" ?

“也许这就是书上所说的‘一时兴起’”？

If anything, as the expression of their last wishes, bequests carry more weight than their passing fancies do.

如果有什么不同的话，作为他们遗愿的表达，遗赠物比流逝的幻想带有更大的分量。

I love you to oppressiveness—I, who have never before felt more than a pleasant passing fancy for any woman I have ever seen.

我爱你爱到喘不过气来的地步——我过去对任何一个见过的女人，顶多只是一时愉悦的兴趣而已。

Men are given to the trick of having a passing fancy for somebody else in the midst of a permanent love, which reasserts itself afterwards just as before.

男人在永久的爱中间，会有轻率之举，暂时迷恋上另一个女人。但那永久的爱随后又会如先前一样，重新获得它的地位。

He agreed to it, as he agreed later on to the leash, because he thought it was a passing fancy that could be overcome in time.

他同意了， 就像他后来同意皮带一样，因为他认为这是一种可以及时克服的幻想。

You know not with what perfidious cleverness they contrive to satisfy their caprices, nor the art with which they will convert your passing fancy into a love which ought to be eternal.

你不知道他们用多么背信弃义的聪明才智来满足他们的反复无常， 也不知道他们用什么技巧将你短暂的幻想变成应该永恒的爱。

Never were conditions more favourable for developing a girl's first passing fancy for a handsome boyish face—a fancy rooted in inexperience and nourished by seclusion—into a wild unreflecting passion fervid enough for anything.

没有比这更有利的条件，可以让女孩对一张英俊的男孩面孔的最初的幻想——这种幻想植根于缺乏经验，并在与世隔绝的环境中得到滋养——发展成一种狂野的、不加思索的、对任何事情都狂热的激情。

Mr. Starr was out of town, and would I talk to anyone else? I would not. I didn't even want to talk to Starr very badly, It was just a passing fancy. He was too far away to hit me.

斯塔尔先生不在城里，我能和其他人谈谈吗？我不会。我什至不想和斯塔尔说得很糟糕，那只是一时的幻想。他离得太远打不到我。