1. To his friends: serious, high-minds, impatient with fripperies. 对于他的朋友，他是严肃认真、宽宏大量和超新脱俗。
2. Where drugs to change personality traits were once seen as medicinal fripperies, or enhancements, they are now seen as entitlements. 那里，药物改变了人格特性一度曾被看作是医学上的无用，或进步，它们现在被看作是权利。
3. The money was supposed to be spent on bus fares, books and the like, but some recipients have frittered it away on fripperies such as make-up and mobile phones. 这笔款项本应用于支付学生的公共汽车费，课本费等等，但一些受款人将津贴浪费在了化妆品、手机等无关用品上。
4. But the campaign has in effect been running for months: regardless of the official fripperies, Britain's political parties have been in election mode since Christmas at least. 但实际上选战已于数月前开始：若不计官方浮夸虚饰的表态，英国各政党至少从去年圣诞节起即进入选举状态。
