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。
• 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。
• 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。
• "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”
• And can change plans quickly, but you are not flighty.
  你是思维敏捷，能够很快的根据情况改变对策，但是你并不轻率，随心所欲。
• 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。
• 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。
• Flighty people often have volatile dispositions.
  轻浮的人经常反复无常。
• 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。
• Other sources of finance can be flighty, too.
  其实其他金融来源也可能不那么可靠。