flighty

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It was amplified by newfangled, flighty financial techniques, notably buying assets with borrowed money and watching leverage work its arithmetical magic.
他被新穎而輕浮的金融操作所放大，尤其是人們借錢購(gòu)置資產(chǎn)，并坐觀金融杠桿發(fā)揮著數(shù)字魔術(shù)。
Set at the turn of the 19th century, in "Hayslope" during the Methodist revival, the story concerns Adam, a stern carpenter who is engaged to the pretty but flighty milkmaid, Hetty Sorrel.
該書寫于 19 世紀(jì)末期，正值衛(wèi)理公會(huì)教派復(fù)蘇之時(shí)，主角亞當(dāng)是一個(gè)不茍言笑的木匠，卻娶了漂亮輕浮的擠奶工海蒂。
She was drawn to the scholastic and artistic crowds in high school but they rejected her point-blank, assuming either that she was a flighty airhead or was mocking the gawky students in those circles.
在高中時(shí)，她想和愛學(xué)習(xí)有藝術(shù)氣質(zhì)的人交朋友，但是他們斷然拒絕接受她，因?yàn)樗麄兿氘?dāng)然的認(rèn)為她只是一個(gè)輕浮而且腦袋空空如也的傻瓜蛋，或者懷疑她在嘲笑他們?nèi)锏膶W(xué)生們遲鈍。

Even the strongest firm is a delicate combination of flighty clients and flightier talent.
ECONOMIST: UnfulPhilled
Hong Kong's investors are likely to fare better with boring insurance than with flighty internet stocks.
ECONOMIST: This year's biggest initial public offering
But because it did not rely on flighty capital markets for funds, it has weathered the downturn better.
ECONOMIST: Face value

(especially of a woman) not responsible and likely to change activities, jobs, boyfriends, etc. often

If you say that someone is flighty, you disapprove of them because they are not very serious or reliable and keep changing from one activity, idea, or partner to another.