解释
- adj. 浮躁的;易变的;变幻无常的
※ 提供单词"fickle"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照,中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
fickle 反复无常的
来自PIE*peig, 狡猾的,敌对的,坏心眼的,词源同foe, fiend. 引申词义反复无常的。
英文词源
- fickle (adj.)
- c. 1200, "false, treacherous, deceptive, deceitful, crafty" (obsolete), probably from Old English ficol "deceitful, cunning, tricky," related to befician "deceive," and to facen "deceit, treachery; blemish, fault." Common Germanic (compare Old Saxon fekan "deceit," Old High German feihhan "deceit, fraud, treachery"), from PIE *peig- (2) "evil-minded, treacherous, hostile" (see foe).
Sense of "changeable, inconstant, unstable" is from c. 1300 (especially of Fortune and women). Related: Fickleness. Fickly (c. 1300) is rare or obsolete. Also with a verb form in Middle English, fikelen "to deceive, flatter," later "to puzzle, perplex," which survived long enough in Northern dialects to get into Scott's novels. Fikel-tonge (late 14c.) was an allegorical or character name for "one who speaks falsehoods."
例句和用法
- 1. Orta's weather can be fickle.
- 奥尔塔的天气变幻莫测。
- 2. The weather here is notoriously fickle.
- 这里的天气出了名的变化无常。
- 3. Fluctuating prices usually base on a fickle public's demand.
- 物价的波动往往是由于群众需求的不稳定而引起的.
- 4. The television world was a notoriously fickle one.
- 电视圈是出了名的变化无常.
- 5. They have no use for fickle supporters.
- 他们不能容忍反覆无常的拥护者.
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