flighty
英 [ˈflaɪti]
美 [ˈflaɪti]
adj. (女子)反复无常的,轻浮的
BNC.34088 / COCA.27481
牛津词典
adj.
- (女子)反复无常的,轻浮的
a flighty woman is one who cannot be relied on because she is always changing activities, ideas and partners without treating them seriously
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 轻浮的;见异思迁的;反复无常的
If you say that someone isflighty, you disapprove of them because they are not very serious or reliable and keep changing from one activity, idea, or partner to another.- Isabelle was a frivolous little fool, vain and flighty.
伊莎贝尔是个轻佻、没头脑的小女人,非常虚荣又反复无常。
- Isabelle was a frivolous little fool, vain and flighty.
英英释义
adj
- unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
- guided by whim and fancy
- flighty young girls
双语例句
- They could also argue that retail deposits can be as flighty as the wholesale markets: just ask Northern Rock and IndyMac, both of which suffered rapid withdrawals.
他们也能说小规模存款与大规模市场一样的不稳定。正如北岩银行与因迪美一样遭遇了挤兑。 - That seems weird for a business built on flighty electrons.
对于一项建立在更新换代频繁的电子产品基础上的业务而言,这个假定似乎有些奇怪。 - "Her eyes look down ever so shyly, I caught it though it was so flighty"
“她的目光是如此羞涩,我抓到,是如此轻狂” - Men said they wanted a "kind-hearted" wife, not too beautiful and flighty, but modest and homely.
男性表示他们希望找个“善良”的妻子,不必太漂亮,但不能轻浮,最好谦逊而顾家。 - She was never flighty like you.
她从来不像你这样胡思乱想。 - To move forward step by step logic, but why did I take it back from the front! Laugh at me flighty.
逻辑思维步步向前走,可是我为什么要从最前面向后走呢!笑我轻浮。 - She was a flighty piece.
她是个轻浮的女人。 - One day betenoire will be just a frisky dog or a flighty horse, an enjoyable and loyal companion, only occasionally causing a slight pain in the neck.
有一天,你的“可怕之处”将只是一条欢闹小狗,或一匹轻浮的马,一位愉快和忠实的伴侣,只会在偶尔才引起的脖子上轻微疼痛。 - Mr Cameron is keen on the tech industry, seeing it as a source of growth in lean times, and a way of weaning the economy off its dependence on flighty finance.
卡梅隆首相极为看重科技产业,视之为低潮时期的经济增长来源,并想凭此断绝英国经济对反复无常的金融业的依赖。 - Measuring hedge fund returns is complicated by the fact that investors tend to be flighty, flocking to funds which have done well and selling out after losses.
衡量对冲基金回报率比较困难,因为投资者往往反复无常基金做得好,他们就趋之若鹜;做亏了,他们就会抛售。