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
- 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。