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skittish

英 [ˈskɪtɪʃ]

美 [ˈskɪtɪʃ]

adj.  易惊而难以驾驭的; 轻浮的; 易变的; 反复无常的; 说变就变的; 变幻莫测的

GRE

BNC.34526 / COCA.20080

牛津词典

    adj.

    • 易惊而难以驾驭的
      easily excited or frightened and therefore difficult to control
      1. 轻浮的;易变的;反复无常的
        not very serious and with ideas and feelings that keep changing
        1. 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

        柯林斯词典

        • ADJ-GRADED (人或动物)易激动的,易受惊的
          If you describe a person or animal asskittish, 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。
        • ADJ-GRADED 没长性的;轻佻的;善变的;靠不住的
          Someone who isskittishdoes 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

        英英释义

        adj

        双语例句

        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • They seem a bit skittish.
          他们好像有点容易激动。
        • 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。
        • Internet users had been skittish about shopping online.
          因特网使用者对网购物提心吊胆。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • This one's too skittish around cows.
          这马见到奶牛太容易激动了。