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
- Other sources of finance can be flighty, too.
其实其他金融来源也可能不那么可靠。 - 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。 - 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。 - She is too flighty to take care of young children.
她太不负责任,不能照顾小孩。 - 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。 - What a flighty person she is!
她这人真三八! - "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” - Any bank takeover is notoriously difficult, with everything from balance sheet risks to flighty staff posing a threat.
众所周知,任何银行收购活动都非常困难,资产负债表风险、未能安抚好员工&任何方面都可能出现问题。 - 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。 - 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。
