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Fickle World Notoriously Adj Graded 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词 英 Fɪkl] 美 Fɪkl

英语单词 fickle
英美音标 英 ['fɪkl] 美 ['fɪkl]
中文释义 adj.变幻无常的;易变的
英语例句 (1) The weather's so fickle in summer.
(2) It's the third time that he changed his mind; he's so fickle!
(3) The television world was a notoriously fickle one.
(4) He turned out to be fickle - he has left me.
中文例句 (1) 夏日的天气如此多变。
(2) 他改变主意已经是第三回了,他这人太反复无常了!
(3) 电视圈是出了名的变化无常。
(4) 他原来是个善变的人 - 他离开我了。
vocabulary简明 People who are fickle change their minds so much you can't rely on them. If your best friend suddenly decides that she doesn't like you one week, and then the next week she wants to hang out again, she's being fickle.
vocabulary扩展 Fickle comes from the Old English word ficol, for deceitful. We usually use fickle to talk about people, but it can also be used for abstract things that alternately favor you and abuse you, like the weather. If you win the lottery and then lose everything else in the world that's important to you, fate is being fickle.
柯林斯解释
1
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]变化无常的;善变的 If you describe someone as fickle, you disapprove of them because they keep changing their mind about what they like or want.
  [disapproval]
  • The group has been notoriously fickle in the past.

    这伙人过去一直是出了名的善变。

fickleness
  • ...the fickleness of businessmen and politicians.

    商人和政客的反复无常

2
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]无常的;靠不住的 If you say that something is fickle, you mean that it often changes and is unreliable.
  • Orta's weather can be fickle.

    奥尔塔的天气变幻莫测。

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