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

• Other sources of finance can be flighty, too.
  其实其他金融来源也可能不那么可靠。
• 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。
• Flighty people often have volatile dispositions.
  轻浮的人经常反复无常。
• 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。
• A flighty and disorganized person.
  一个好作奇想和没有组织的人。
• 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。
• 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。
• Childlings sylphs are timid and flighty.
  精灵小孩是胆小害羞和让人捉摸不定。
• She was never flighty like you.
  她从来不像你这样胡思乱想。
• To move forward step by step logic, but why did I take it back from the front! Laugh at me flighty.
  逻辑思维步步向前走，可是我为什么要从最前面向后走呢！笑我轻浮。