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

• A flighty and disorganized person.
  一个好作奇想和没有组织的人。
• Other sources of finance can be flighty, too.
  其实其他金融来源也可能不那么可靠。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• One day betenoire will be just a frisky dog or a flighty horse, an enjoyable and loyal companion, only occasionally causing a slight pain in the neck.
  有一天，你的“可怕之处”将只是一条欢闹小狗，或一匹轻浮的马，一位愉快和忠实的伴侣，只会在偶尔才引起的脖子上轻微疼痛。
• 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。
• "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”
• What a flighty person she is!
  她这人真三八！