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

• She was never flighty like you.
  她从来不像你这样胡思乱想。
• Flighty people often have volatile dispositions.
  轻浮的人经常反复无常。
• If it does not act, Mr Tucker says supervisors should limit the amount of short-term funding that European and international banks can get from "flighty sources" such as money market funds.
  塔克表示，如果它没有采取行动，监管机构应该限制欧洲和国际上的银行从货币市场基金等“波动源头”获得短期融资的数量。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• To study the academic history of the history subject extensively and thoroughly, it will be helpful to form a healthy academic system to make reviews on historical results as well as be crucial to get rid of the flighty and rash circumstance of history research.
  广泛、深入地开展历史学科学术史研究，可形成对史学业绩评定的学术性社会机制，对于克服浮躁的不良学风、保证历史学健康、繁荣地发展，具有十分关键的作用。
• She is too flighty to take care of young children.
  她太不负责任，不能照顾小孩。
• 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。