| 单词 | fickle |
| 释义 | fickle (once / 1596 pages) adj People who are fickle change their minds so much you can't rely on them. If your best friend suddenly decides that she doesn't like you one week, and then the next week she wants to hang out again, she's being fickle. Fickle comes from the Old English word ficol, for deceitful. We usually use fickle to talk about people, but it can also be used for abstract things that alternately favor you and abuse you, like the weather. If you win the lottery and then lose everything else in the world that's important to you, fate is being fickle. WORD FAMILYfickle: fickleness, fickler, ficklest, fickly+/fickleness: ficklenesses USAGE EXAMPLESFor investors whose moods are as fickle as the weather, risk parity may involve more risk than reward. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) “Marriage itself is becoming more fickle, with individuals more interested in pursuing their own gratification.” Los Angeles Times(Nov 25, 2016) The support the GNA does receive is fickle and based mainly on self-interest. Economist(Nov 24, 2016) 1adj liable to sudden unpredictable change fickle weather Syn erratic, mercurial, quicksilver changeable, changeful such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change 2adj marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments fickle friends Syn volatile inconstant likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable |
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