Capricious
[kə'prɪʃəs]
解释:
(adj.) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; 'a capricious refusal'; 'authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious'; 'the victim of whimsical persecutions' .
(adj.) changeable; 'a capricious summer breeze'; 'freakish weather' .
整理:保罗--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.
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同义词及近义词：
a. Whimsical, fanciful, fantastical, crotchety, humorsome, wayward, odd, queer, fitful, freakish, very changeable.
手打:莫尔
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Wayward, uncertain, fanciful, freakish, fitful, fickle, changeful, whimsical,humorsome, inconstant, crotchety
ANT:Firm, unchanging, inflexible, decided, unswerving, constant
录入:弗农
例句:
- She grew capricious; her gentle conduct towards him was exchanged for asperity and repulsive coldness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- So insolent, so trivial, so capricious, so mercenary, so careless, so hard to touch, so hard to turn! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Hence it appeals to thought; it demands that an idea of an end be steadily maintained, so that activity cannot be either routine or capricious. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- What mean these fellows by their capricious insolence? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I am afraid I have been very complaining, and very capricious. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- How anxious and capricious she would have been, and what a hard task the best of dressmakers would have found it to please her! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I dare say I am a capricious fellow, David. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I said you were capricious. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- You are not capricious, but true, loving, and charming beyond expression—a very woman, whom I love, and who loves me in return. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- As matter of fact, the native activities develop, in contrast with random and capricious exercise, through the uses to which they are put. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Wherefore the night is empty of singing to me: Lean from your lattice, capricious one, And I will sing the strain of the nightingale to the rose. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- It is equally fatal to an aim to permit capricious or discontinuous action in the name of spontaneous self-expression. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Such action is essentially capricious, and leads to capricious habits. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Your sex is capricious, you know. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- For many years, she kept up a capricious, fitful sort of correspondence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The opposites, once more, to thoughtful action are routine and capricious behavior. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Yet are you not capricious, sir? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- We must, as I think, treat those capricious men as we find them. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Are you capricious? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Well, you are capricious at times. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- He conducted himself in quite an unconventional fashion, and seemed to follow the last thought that suggested itself to his capricious brain. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Now Mr. Casaubon had been deprived of that superiority (as anything more than a remembrance) in a sudden, capricious manner. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- For what is more capricious than human actions? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- And then with silly flourish (what so capricious and childish as despair? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The exception to the imagination, as being more capricious and uncertain. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Graham says you are the most peculiar, capricious little woman he knows; but yet you are excellent; we both think so. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- She remembered the chemist's warning against increasing the dose; and she had heard before of the capricious and incalculable action of the drug. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Before my eyes he grows suspicious, capricious, hard, tyrannical, unjust. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- He said I was a capricious witch, and that he would rather sing another time; but I averred that no time was like the present. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- They say Fortune is a woman and capricious. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
录入:弗农