flighty

英 [ˈflaɪti]

美 [ˈflaɪti]

adj.  (女子)反复无常的，轻浮的

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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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

adj

• unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
  Synonym:skittishspookynervous
• guided by whim and fancy
  1. flighty young girls
  Synonym:flyawayhead-in-the-cloudsscatterbrained

双语例句

• Career is a "great game", in the long time, flighty and impetuous, eager for quick success and instant benefit always is taboo.
  职场生涯是一盘“很大的棋”，在长达数十年的时间里，心浮气躁、急功近利永远是大忌。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The more capital a bank has, the less it relies on borrowed money, a flighty source of funding that can evaporate in a crisis.
  一家银行的资本越多，对于负债的依赖程度就越小。负债是一种不可靠的资金来源，在危机爆发时可能会迅速蒸发。
• 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。
• 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。
• She is too flighty to take care of young children.
  她太不负责任，不能照顾小孩。
• Childlings sylphs are timid and flighty.
  精灵小孩是胆小害羞和让人捉摸不定。