skittish

adj.

1. 易惊而难以驾驭的
   easily excited or frightened and therefore difficult to control
2. 轻浮的；易变的；反复无常的
   not very serious and with ideas and feelings that keep changing
3. 说变就变的；变幻莫测的
   likely to change suddenly
   1. skittish financial markets
      变幻莫测的金融市场

1. ADJ-GRADED (人或动物)易激动的，易受惊的
   If you describe a person or animal as skittish, you mean they are easily made frightened or excited.
   1. The declining dollar gave heart to skittish investors.
      美元的衰落给总是担惊受怕的投资者们带来了信心。
2. ADJ-GRADED 没长性的;轻佻的;善变的;靠不住的
   Someone who is skittish does not concentrate on anything or take life very seriously.
   1. ...his relentlessly skittish sense of humour.
      他那永远变化不定的幽默感

1. The declining dollar gave heart to skittish investors.
   美元的衰落给总是担惊受怕的投资者们带来了信心。
2. But after the Facebook IPO turned into a fiasco, many technology investors became more skittish.
   结果Facebook的IPO惨淡收场，许多科技投资者变得更加小心翼翼。
3. It could be that the monkeys are just skittish when it comes to unwelcome sounds.
   可能也就出现不愉悦的声音的时候这些猴子才会表现的活泼一些。
4. European stocks are generally down again as energy shares made investors skittish.
   能源类股让投资人感到不安。欧洲股市再次整体下滑。
5. Almost uniquely, it need not wait for skittish managers to resume their investment programmes; its balanced budget and its low level of public debt gives the government scope to invest using its own balance sheet.
   几乎绝无仅有的是，德国不必等待胆小怕事的经理们重启他们的投资计划；德国平衡的预算以及较低的公共债务水平，使得政府具备了利用自身资产负债表进行投资的空间。
6. Skittish investors have already removed their money.
   紧张的投资者已经把钱撤走了。
7. The financial crisis has made firms more skittish about relying on banks or securities markets for funds.
   金融危机之后，企业不敢再依赖银行和债券市场募集资金。
8. As a result, money market fund managers are a very skittish bunch.
   受此影响，货币市场基金经理们成了一群惊弓之鸟。
9. The oil market has become all the more skittish amid a raft of gloomy news from big oil producers.
   随着全球各大产油国不断传出令人沮丧的消息，石油市场也变得更易波动。
10. Internet users had been skittish about shopping online.
    因特网使用者对网购物提心吊胆。
11. And you tell me this woman is skittish.
    你告诉我这个女人不太可靠。
12. Insurers themselves mostly conform to this type: they produce modest, consistent returns-steady growth and, to reassure the skittish, a dividend.
    保险公司本身大多数符合这一类型：他们产出适度且稳定的收益稳妥的增长和不确定的分红。
13. This one's too skittish around cows.
    这马见到奶牛太容易激动了。
14. But this weekend's events cast a shadow over the standalone model, with its reliance on leverage and skittish wholesale funding.
    但上周末的重大事件给依赖杠杆和承销融资的独立投行模式笼上一层阴影。
15. What is more, the regulatory risk is negligible in France and finland, since nuclear power is widely accepted by politicians and public alike, so financiers are less skittish.
    更重要的是，管理风险在法国和芬兰几乎可以忽略不计，因为这两国的政客和公众都广泛接受了核能，投资者也不会不安稳。
16. Funds also have been skittish about bank investments because of fears that financial regulators could compel them to provide additional capital to such institutions in bad times thereby putting their investors at risk.
    此外，基金对于银行投资战战兢兢，因为它们担心，金融监管机构可能会迫使它们在经济低迷时期向银行提供追加投资，从而令其投资者面临风险。
17. They seem a bit skittish.
    他们好像有点容易激动。
18. She gets very skittish when her boy-friend is around.
    她男朋友在场时，她就显得格外轻佻。
19. Oxborrow admits that he was skittish about the experiment.
    奥克斯波洛承认，他对是否进行实验犹豫不决。
20. Wall Street remains skittish about financial stocks since a run on Bear Stearns caused the U.
    自从美国政府牵红线让贝尔斯登下嫁摩根大通之后，华尔街对金融股的态度变得摇摆不定。
21. She must have seen him getting skittish.
    她肯定是看到他开始紧张起来。
22. Uncertain economic conditions make them skittish: surviving at home is the number one priority.
    不确定的经济环境让他们有些胆怯：在国内市场活下来才是首要任务。
23. This product's life cycle will only last as long as everybody's skittish about SARS.
    因为这个产品的生命周期，只有大家都害怕SARS的这一小段时间而已。
24. The biggest reason for the slowdown was skittish investors yanking cash investment funds that normally flow to such deals.
    市场清淡的最主要原因是不安的投资者纷纷退出通常会流向此类交易的投资基金。
25. Profits remain so low that skittish investors are cancelling their plans.
    利润仍然很低，以致举棋不定的投资者取消了他们的计划。
26. Investors remained skittish in the United States, although the Dow Jones managed to finish the day up slightly.
    即使道琼斯指数在尾盘略有回升，美国的投资者仍然胆战心惊。
27. Taking action to assuage skittish policy makers, on the other hand, is good politics but bad economics.
    另一方面，采取行动来安抚紧张的政策制定者，虽然从政治层面来看是个不错的做法，但从经济层面来看却是个烂招。
28. Though neither was particularly sickly, markets could no longer stomach their potentially lethal combination of illiquid assets and skittish wholesale liabilities.
    尽管二者都不是完全陷入困境，但是市场对于其潜在的致命缺陷–非流动资产和不可靠的大规模债务的模式已经不再信任。
29. These companies are reaping rewards from investors who are skittish about shakier rivals.
    这些公司在衰退之时从疑虑重重的投资人手中得到回报，打败了相对不可靠的对手。
30. My horse is rather skittish, so I have to keep him away from traffic.
    我的马很容易受惊，所以我让他远离车流。

adj

1. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

   Synonym:    flightyspookynervous