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
- 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。 - Childlings sylphs are timid and flighty.
精灵小孩是胆小害羞和让人捉摸不定。 - "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” - With inflation under much better control, floating exchange rates ( China is a big exception) and well-stocked foreign-exchange reserves now dominate in the emerging world, providing protection against falling exports and flighty foreign investors.
随着对通货膨胀的控制不断加强,新兴世界几乎都实行了浮动汇率制(中国是个特例),拥有充足的外汇储备,这些都可以在出口不断减少或是外国投资者反复无常时为经济提供保障。 - 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。 - 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。 - She was a flighty piece.
她是个轻浮的女人。 - Flighty people often have volatile dispositions.
轻浮的人经常反复无常。 - A flighty and disorganized person.
一个好作奇想和没有组织的人。 - In this country, the "smart" people have these logical, linear abilities, while right-brain people are often seen as flighty, spacey, artsy-fartsy.
在这个国家,“聪明”的人们具有那些逻辑、线性能力;而右脑思考的人们经常被视作轻浮、空幻、艺术、做作。