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。
• 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。
• With inflation under much better control, floating exchange rates ( China is a big exception) and well-stocked foreign-exchange reserves now dominate in the emerging world, providing protection against falling exports and flighty foreign investors.
  随着对通货膨胀的控制不断加强，新兴世界几乎都实行了浮动汇率制（中国是个特例），拥有充足的外汇储备，这些都可以在出口不断减少或是外国投资者反复无常时为经济提供保障。
• 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。
• 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。
• "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”
• 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。
• 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。
• She was never flighty like you.
  她从来不像你这样胡思乱想。
• 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。