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
- What a flighty person she is!
她这人真三八！ - A flighty and disorganized person.
一个好作奇想和没有组织的人。 - Childlings sylphs are timid and flighty.
精灵小孩是胆小害羞和让人捉摸不定。 - They could also argue that retail deposits can be as flighty as the wholesale markets: just ask Northern Rock and IndyMac, both of which suffered rapid withdrawals.
他们也能说小规模存款与大规模市场一样的不稳定。正如北岩银行与因迪美一样遭遇了挤兑。 - First, French banks are particularly reliant on potentially flighty short-term wholesale funding, rather than on stickier deposits or long-term debt.
首先，法国银行特别依赖浮动的短期大规模集资，而不是更固定的存款或长期借款。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - She was a flighty piece.
她是个轻浮的女人。 - 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。