capricious
英 [kəˈprɪʃəs] 美 [kəˈprɪʃəs, -ˈpriʃəs]

adj.

变化无常的；反复无常的；多变的；任性的

英英释义

capricious[ kə'priʃəs ]

• adj.
  • changeable

    "a capricious summer breeze"

    同义词：freakish

  • determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

    "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"

    同义词：impulsivewhimsical

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. He judged her to be capricious, and easily weary of the pleasure of the moment.
   他认为她是任性的，很容易对一时的快乐产生厌倦。

权威例句

Is Nature Probable or Capricious?
Cardiac contusion: a capricious syndrome.
Capricious expression of cortical columns in the primate brain
Coping with a Capricious Environment: A Population Study of a Rare Pierid Butterfly
Control of behavioural strategies for capricious environments
THE CONCEPT OF ALLOSTASIS: COPING WITH A CAPRICIOUS ENVIRONMENT
The LRR proteins capricious and Tartan mediate cell interactions during DV boundary formation in the Drosophila wing
Swingin' in the rain: condition dependence and sexual selection in a capricious world.
Drosophila synapse formation: regulation by transmembrane protein with Leu-rich repeats, CAPRICIOUS.
Regulation of Layer-Specific Targeting by Reciprocal Expression of a Cell Adhesion Molecule, Capricious