vagaries

英 [ˈveɪɡəriz]

美 [ˈveɪɡəriz]

n.  奇思遐想; 游移不定; 变幻莫测
vagary的复数

COCA.16192

牛津词典

noun

• 奇思遐想；游移不定；变幻莫测
  changes in sb/sth that are difficult to predict or control

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 出乎意料的变化;难以预测的转变
  Vagariesare unexpected and unpredictable changes in a situation or in someone's behaviour which you have no control over.
  1. I take an assortment of clothes on holiday, as a provision against the vagaries of the weather.
     我带了各种衣服去度假，以防天气突变。
  2. ...the perplexing vagaries of politics.
     复杂难解、变幻莫测的政坛风云

双语例句

• The goal of the new global plant banking system is to protect the precious stored plant genes from the vagaries of climate, politics and human error.
  这个新的全球植物库系统的目标是保护储藏起来的珍贵植物基因免遭气候变化、政治动荡和人为过错的损害。
• However, the vagaries of representing non-integral numbers do occasionally sneak into otherwise integer-centric programs.
  然而，在以整数为主的程序中有时确实会出人意料地需要表示非整型数据。
• Thereafter you are subject to the vagaries of the market.
  此后，你就要看市场行情的变化了。
• In doing so, they proved that though we were wrong to think we had escaped the vagaries of the business cycle, we did have the ability to overcome the vices of parochial politics that led to calamity in the 1930s.
  在此过程中，他们证明了这样一点：虽然我们自认为已经摆脱商业周期的变幻莫测是不对的，但我们确实有能力克服导致20世纪30年代那种灾难的狭隘政治。
• I take an assortment of clothes on holiday, as a provision against the vagaries of the weather.
  我带了各种衣服去度假，以防天气突变。
• With only two possible values, 1 and0, noise and other vagaries of the electronic world are unlikely to alter a signal.
  由于只有两种可能的值：1和0，噪声及电子世界的其他异常行为不可能改变信号。
• Its climate is subjected to the vagaries of both tropical and extratropical weather systems.
  盛行之地，气候受到变化多端的热带及温带系统支配。
• Sunday passed with equal doubts, worries, assurances, and heaven knows what vagaries of mind and spirit.
  星期天过去了，这一天充满着同样的疑虑，担忧，自我宽慰，和天知道还有些什么别的异想天开。
• Pre-built code is less sensitive to system vagaries and thus more uniform and predictable.
  预构建代码对系统特性不那么敏感，因此更统一且可预测。
• But he knew too much about the vagaries of women to be caught like this.
  可是他太了解女人这样的异想天开。