flighty

adj.

1. （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

1. ADJ-GRADED 轻浮的;见异思迁的;反复无常的
   If you say that someone is flighty, 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。

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。
2. What a flighty person she is!
   她这人真三八！
3. 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。
4. The more capital a bank has, the less it relies on borrowed money, a flighty source of funding that can evaporate in a crisis.
   一家银行的资本越多，对于负债的依赖程度就越小。负债是一种不可靠的资金来源，在危机爆发时可能会迅速蒸发。
5. She was never flighty like you.
   她从来不像你这样胡思乱想。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. She is too flighty to take care of young children.
    她太不负责任，不能照顾小孩。
14. 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。
15. A flighty and disorganized person.
    一个好作奇想和没有组织的人。
16. Flighty people often have volatile dispositions.
    轻浮的人经常反复无常。
17. 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。
18. Childlings sylphs are timid and flighty.
    精灵小孩是胆小害羞和让人捉摸不定。
19. She was a flighty piece.
    她是个轻浮的女人。
20. 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。
21. "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”
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. Other sources of finance can be flighty, too.
    其实其他金融来源也可能不那么可靠。
26. 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。

adj

1. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

   Synonym:    skittishspookynervous

2. guided by whim and fancy
   1. flighty young girls

   Synonym:    flyawayhead-in-the-cloudsscatterbrained