erratic
英[ɪ'rætɪk]
美[ɪ'rætɪk]
- adj. 不稳定的；古怪的
- n. 漂泊无定的人；古怪的人
英英释意
- 1. having no fixed course;
- "an erratic comet"
- "his life followed a wandering course"
- "a planetary vagabond"
- 2. liable to sudden unpredictable change;
- "erratic behavior"
- "fickle weather"
- "mercurial twists of temperament"
- "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
- 3. likely to perform unpredictably;
- "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"
- "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"
- "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster