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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - She must have seen him getting skittish.
她肯定是看到他开始紧张起来。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。