| 单词 | volatile |
| 释义 | vol·a·tile I. 1. 2. < coffee volatiles > II. 1. 2. < volatile matter > < volatile solvents > 3. a. < people think that I am volatile because I dance and go to the movies — Ellen Glasgow > < had a volatile mind and was furiously interested in Indians and geography — Bernard De Voto > b. < these things annoyed and irritated, even drove her volatile temper to a distraction — Ellis St. Joseph > < if, as mortals, they are violent and volatile, it is because their emotions are near the surface — John Mason Brown > < the developments which even my volatile suspicions hadn't allowed me to foresee — Ralph Ellison > c. < faced with a highly volatile social situation … with the problem of reconciliation in this city of forty-eight different ethnic groups — Jean Burden > < world government … could halt rigidly and abruptly whatever danger of war might proceed out of the highly volatile competition for military supremacy between the two — Norman Cousins > 4. a. < as giddy and volatile as ever — Jonathan Swift > < the most volatile of men, and what is true today may be quite false before the winter snows … have melted — Bruce Bliven b. 1889 > < in the midst of an area whose politics are explosively volatile — E.A.Kehr > < this volatile element of reader preference — Printers' Ink > b. < volatile markets > < volatile common stocks > 5. < so volatile an essence that he escaped definition — Elinor Wylie > < what we actually traffic in are living ideas; the books are only containers for a more volatile commodity — Publishers' Weekly > Synonyms: see elastic |
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