capricious

[美國]/kəˈprɪʃəs/
[英國]/kəˈprɪʃəs/
詞頻: 非常高

中文釋義

adj. 無定見的,變幻莫測的

例句

a capricious personality

變幻莫測的性格

a capricious and often brutal administration.

難以捉摸卻又常常很殘忍的管理。

they were perturbed by her capricious behaviour.

她反覆無常的行爲令他們不安。

We can’t go camping while the weather is so capricious.

天氣如此多變,我們不能出去宿營。

In Iraq's case this was the Baath, or Renaissance, Party, a vehicle which he ultimately transformed, through terrifyingly capricious ruthlessness, into a fascistic tool for his own absolute control.

他的無情令人髮指,他的冷酷叫人難以捉摸,復興黨也因此成了他絕對操控的法西斯工具。

原聲例句

You know how capricious he can be.

你知道父親有多麼反覆無常。

來源: Sherlock Holmes: The Basic Deduction Method Season 2

But investors are warned off by the capricious way he takes decisions.

但是他舉棋不定的決策方式嚇跑了投資者們。

來源: The Economist (Summary)

The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope cautious and uniform.

德萊登的風格變幻莫測,富於變化,而蒲伯的則小心謹慎,趨於單一。

來源: American Version Language Arts Volume 6

It was a capricious breeze, coming from the coast, and after it passed the sea became smooth.

是一種很不固定的微風,有一陣沒一陣地從大陸上吹來,它掠過了海面,立即飛向不知名的遠方,海上波紋也就馬上隨着消失。

來源: Around the World in Eighty Days

The road followed the capricious windings of the southern branch of the Platte River, on its left bank.

火車沿着普拉特河左岸,順着普拉特河南部支流千變萬化的彎曲河岸前進。

來源: Around the World in Eighty Days

Depending less on capricious foreign aid, Gaza also enjoys “exceptionally high” economic growth, according to the latest World Bank report.

根據世界銀行最新報告顯示,儘管加沙減少了對時有時無的國外援助的依靠,其經濟發展依然呈現快速增長態勢。

來源: The Economist - Comprehensive

They say Fortune is a woman and capricious.

他們說財富是一個女人, 反覆無常。

來源: Middlemarch (Part Four)

It is the first time I have been told I am capricious.

這是我第一次被告知我反覆無常。

來源: Washington Square

In the British sitcom " Yes, Minister" the prime minister is capricious but invisible.

英國情景喜劇《是的,大臣》中的首相反覆無常卻又隱形。

來源: The Economist Culture

It is completely random and capricious and arbitrary and cold – just like the universe.

它是完全隨機的、反覆無常的、任意的和冷酷的——就像宇宙一樣。

來源: World History Crash Course

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