| 单词 | inconstant |
| 释义 | in·constant I. 1. < unjust I may have been … but never inconstant — Jane Austen > 2. obsolete Synonyms: < for people seldom knew what they would be, young men especially, they are so amazingly changeable and inconstant — Jane Austen > it is often used in reference to persons incapable of steadfastness in love or in reference to changeable climatic and meteorological developments < supposing now … this lover of yours was not the sort of man we all take him to be, and that he was to turn out false, or inconstant — Anthony Trollope > < places where the soil was fertile but the rainfall uncertain and the rivers shallow and inconstant — A.M.Schlesinger b.1888 > fickle intensifies notions of pointless, even perverse, changeability and incapacity for steadfastness < she is fickle! How she turns from one face to another face — and smiles into them all — Edna S. V. Millay > < but bitter experience soon taught him that lordly patrons are fickle and their favor not to be relied on — Aldous Huxley > < the next morning was gay with fickle sun-showers; it was a harlequin day, a strayed reveler from April — Elinor Wylie > capricious is less derogatory than fickle but suggests motivation by caprice, whim, or fancy making for unexpected change < he seemed heartless and capricious, as ready to drop you as he had been to take you up — George du Maurier > < the more capricious incidence of sexual passion — Lewis Mumford > < the capricious severity of a mere despot — J.R.Green > < a capricious and malevolent race of savages — Bernard De Voto > mercurial in this sense is likely to suggest changeability in mood, especially rapid rise from discouragement to mirth or elation, or to suggest a versatility of gifts < Allnutt's mercurial spirits could hardly help rising under the influence of Rose's persistent optimism — C.S.Forester > < mercurial, euphoric, he could blaze into hectic social events and become a rather too brash and boyish “life and soul of the party” — Times Literary Supplement > unstable, a less colorful word, indicates an incapacity to remain stable or steady, with many changes and fluctuations < of some meddling, bold fanatic, mind unstable, weird, erratic — Sophia A. Jamieson > < the occupation [of mining] in general is an unstable one — Lewis Mumford > < the bolts of shade and flakes of light upon the countenances of the group changed shape and position endlessly. All was unstable, quivering as leaves, evanescent as lightning — Thomas Hardy > II. |
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