capricious的意思|capricious的解释-里氏词典

capricious [kә'priʃәs]

a. 反复无常的, 多变的, 任性的

Romantic heroines are often capricious.
浪漫的女主人公往往难以捉摸。
The climate on grassland is capricious.
草原的气候变化无常。
The novelist characterizes his heroine as capricious and passionate.
这位小说家把女主人公刻画成反覆无常而又多情的人.

capricious

[ adj ]

changeable

<adj.all>

a capricious summer breeze

freakish weather

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

<adj.all>

a capricious refusal

authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious

the victim of whimsical persecutions

Capricious \Ca*pri"cious\ (k[.a]*pr[i^]sh"[u^]s), a. [Cf. F.
capricieux, It. capriccioso.]
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly;
freakish; whimsical; changeable. ``Capricious poet.'' --Shak.
``Capricious humor.'' --Hugh Miller.

A capricious partiality to the Romish practices.
--Hallam.

Syn: Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety;
fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain;
inconstant; arbitrary. -- {Ca*pri"cious*ly}, adv. --
{Ca*pri"cious*ness}, n.

It also raised questions whether the agency under Commissioner David Kessler has become arbitrary and capricious, demanding too much of industry too quickly in its new zeal to enforce the law.
Strategically, this man is a capricious dictator whose lust for power is as unlimited as his brutality in the pursuit of it.
The airline in its court complaint accused the pilots of "capricious and excessive" reporting of alleged equipment problems, increase sick leave, slow taxiing and other actions.
The former directors filed a lawsuit March 23 challenging the takeover, calling it a "capricious action" that may have been unconstitutional.
If functions ranging from tax and customs administration to education and health continue to be deprived of adequate funding and subjected to capricious political interventions, overall economic performance will suffer.
Interdependence has become so massive that major countries can no longer cut a capricious course.
The contention came in the 13th day of a hearing in U.S. District Court on Keating's lawsuit, which alleges that the government takeover of the Irvine, Calif., S&L was capricious and arbitrary.
"If they were to abuse their power they would no longer be credible," he said. "They're not capricious." Still, they are not spared criticism.
Those opposed called him authoritarian and capricious.
The king appears genuinely tired of being forced to work with the capricious Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization.
Anything from a union or anywhere else doesn't fit, and controllers see his or her actions as capricious.
The capricious and dictatorial one-party council will not be abolished by proportional representation, but it would become far less common.
A federal appeals court panel said Environmental Protection Agency actions that left six hazardous wastes from metal smelting unregulated were "arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law."
This baffles children, who can't make sense of it, and makes their environment seem capricious.
Potential buyers of rescued thrifts won't trust the government if regulators' arbitrary and capricious takeover is allowed to stand, attorney Ronald Fein said Tuesday.
Franklin's officers sued to regain control of the thrift, and Saffels held in a 93-page opinion made public Wednesday that the government seizure was arbitrary and capricious and had no basis in law.
Equipped to handle a population a fifth of its size, Cairo is bursting at the seams. Its telephones are crotchety, its power supply whimsical, its plumbing capricious.
In opposing an earlier motion to disqualify the judge, the SEC had characterized the motion as capricious.
He's always been known as the master of capricious naughtiness and musical wackiness, but his solo efforts since the breakup of Led Zeppelin in 1980 have been relatively tame.
After a four-week trial, U.S. District Judge Dale E. Saffels ruled Wednesday that regulators had acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner.
The American Iron and Steel Institute challenged as arbitrary and capricious EPA air quality standards for particulate matter _ smoke, dust and soot _ on the grounds that they were based on inadequate scientific data.
Franklin's officers sued to regain control of the thrift, and Saffels held in a 93-page opinion made public Wednesday that the government seizure was arbitrary and capricious.
The judge ruled the park's decision to permit drilling "was arbitrary, capricious and not supported by substantial evidence."
The conclusions O'Rourke and OTS reached after reviewing the 10K, that the risks disclosed were likely or probable to occur, were arbitrary and capricious and without reasonable basis.

您正在访问的是
中国词汇量第二的英语词典
更多精彩，登录后发现......

2005 - 2024 Dict.li Online Dictionary

验证码
用户名
密　码
	注册