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
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 - 轻浮的;易变的;反复无常的
not very serious and with ideas and feelings that keep changing - 说变就变的;变幻莫测的
likely to change suddenly- skittish financial markets
变幻莫测的金融市场
- skittish financial markets
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.- 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。
- The declining dollar gave heart to skittish investors.
- 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.- ...his relentlessly skittish sense of humour.
他那永远变化不定的幽默感
- ...his relentlessly skittish sense of humour.
英英释义
adj
双语例句
- They seem a bit skittish.
他们好像有点容易激动。 - 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。 - She must have seen him getting skittish.
她肯定是看到他开始紧张起来。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。