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
• 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
  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

• unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
  Synonym:flightyspookynervous

双语例句

• 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。
• But after the Facebook IPO turned into a fiasco, many technology investors became more skittish.
  结果Facebook的IPO惨淡收场，许多科技投资者变得更加小心翼翼。
• My horse is rather skittish, so I have to keep him away from traffic.
  我的马很容易受惊，所以我让他远离车流。
• Internet users had been skittish about shopping online.
  因特网使用者对网购物提心吊胆。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Funds also have been skittish about bank investments because of fears that financial regulators could compel them to provide additional capital to such institutions in bad times thereby putting their investors at risk.
  此外，基金对于银行投资战战兢兢，因为它们担心，金融监管机构可能会迫使它们在经济低迷时期向银行提供追加投资，从而令其投资者面临风险。