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
- Flighty people often have volatile dispositions.
轻浮的人经常反复无常。 - She was a flighty piece.
她是个轻浮的女人。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Other sources of finance can be flighty, too.
其实其他金融来源也可能不那么可靠。 - "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”