Capricious
[kə'prɪʃəs]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(a.) Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. Whimsical, fanciful, fantastical, crotchety, humorsome, wayward, odd, queer, fitful, freakish, very changeable.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Wayward, uncertain, fanciful, freakish, fitful, fickle, changeful, whimsical,humorsome, inconstant, crotchety
ANT:Firm, unchanging, inflexible, decided, unswerving, constant
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例句/造句/用法:
- She grew capricious; her gentle conduct towards him was exchanged for asperity and repulsive coldness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- So insolent, so trivial, so capricious, so mercenary, so careless, so hard to touch, so hard to turn! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- 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. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- What mean these fellows by their capricious insolence? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I am afraid I have been very complaining, and very capricious. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- How anxious and capricious she would have been, and what a hard task the best of dressmakers would have found it to please her! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I dare say I am a capricious fellow, David. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I said you were capricious. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- You are not capricious, but true, loving, and charming beyond expression—a very woman, whom I love, and who loves me in return. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- As matter of fact, the native activities develop, in contrast with random and capricious exercise, through the uses to which they are put. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- 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. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It is equally fatal to an aim to permit capricious or discontinuous action in the name of spontaneous self-expression. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Such action is essentially capricious, and leads to capricious habits. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Your sex is capricious, you know. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- For many years, she kept up a capricious, fitful sort of correspondence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The opposites, once more, to thoughtful action are routine and capricious behavior. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Yet are you not capricious, sir? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- We must, as I think, treat those capricious men as we find them. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Are you capricious? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Well, you are capricious at times. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- He conducted himself in quite an unconventional fashion, and seemed to follow the last thought that suggested itself to his capricious brain. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Now Mr. Casaubon had been deprived of that superiority (as anything more than a remembrance) in a sudden, capricious manner. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- For what is more capricious than human actions? 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- And then with silly flourish (what so capricious and childish as despair? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The exception to the imagination, as being more capricious and uncertain. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- 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. 維萊特.
- She remembered the chemist's warning against increasing the dose; and she had heard before of the capricious and incalculable action of the drug. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Before my eyes he grows suspicious, capricious, hard, tyrannical, unjust. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- 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. 簡·愛.
- They say Fortune is a woman and capricious. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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