inconstancy
inconstancy 英 [ɪn'kɒnstənsɪ] 美 [ɪnˈkɑnstənsi]
n. 反复无常，易变；不定性
名词复数:inconstancies
- When your friend promises to save you the last piece of gum but doesn't, you might curse her for her inconstancy. Inconstancy means changeability, not sticking to a predetermined course.
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- n. 反复无常，易变；不定性
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1. The perfume of this passionate plant may turn a maiden's head, hence wild honeysuckle is a symbol of inconstancy in love.
充满激情的忍冬所散发的香气令少女却步回首，因此野生忍冬象征着爱情的反复无常。
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2. Are those who have been disappointed in their first choice, whether from the inconstancy of its object, or the perverseness of circumstances, to be equally indifferent during the rest of their lives?
难道凡是第一次选择失当的人，无论因为对象朝三暮四，还是因为情况违逆多舛，就该一辈子漠然处之？
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3. Hermia was looking at him and wondering at his strange inconstancy.
赫米亚望着他，对他莫名其妙的反复无常感到很惊奇。
- inconstancy (n.) 1520s of persons, "fickleness;" 1610s of things, "mutability, irregularity," from Latin inconstantia "inconstancy, fickleness," abstract noun from inconstans "changeable, inconsistent" (see inconstant).
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