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📰 外刊例句

Energy companies are keen to produce oil and gas more efficiently, as they grapple with volatile prices and uncertain long-term demand. 能源企业要努力应对价格波动和长期需求充满变数的局面,因而迫切想提高油气生产效率。

—— 《经济学人》

—— 《纽约时报》


📖 基本释义

[adjective] (of a substance) easily evaporated at normal temperatures
[形容词] (指物质)在常温下容易挥发的


💡 深入解读

Volatile 是一个与 Voltaire (伏尔泰)有些形似的单词,源自拉丁语volare(飞),16世纪90年代进入英语后原指“好或轻的”,到了17世纪开始发展出现在的基本含义指液体或固体等物质在常温下“易挥发的、易气化的、易发散的”,比如:挥发性溶剂是一种在室温下挥发的液体。

Volatile solvents

are liquids that vaporize at room temperature.无论是挥发性溶剂,还是汽油等易燃易爆的易挥发化学物质,其状态都是易变不稳定的,将这个概念用来形容人及其情绪,即表示“易变的、易怒的、喜怒无常的”,强调情绪容易迅速变得愤怒或暴力,比如:

那恬不知耻的女人几乎在跟房间里的每一个男人调情。那些男人们都不知道她的个性高度反复无常。

That brazen woman was flirting

with just about every man in the room. None of those men knew that she had a highly

volatile personality.那个身高体壮的男人脾气十分暴躁,别人很难与他相处。

The hefty man had a volatile

temper and couldn't have been easy to live with.而用在情况、局势、价格等上时,则是指“不稳定的、易恶化的、可能急剧波动的”,多指容易迅速且不可预测地恶化,比如:

骚乱进行了好几个月,现在局势仍不太稳定。

The riot waged

for several months and the situation is still

volatile.一旦新总统就职,食品和燃料的价格将极易波动。

Food and fuel prices will be very volatile once the new president is inaugurated

.此外, volatile 从其易挥发的特性还可以引申用来表示“短暂的、片刻的、转瞬即逝的”以及“易引起的”,比如:那个红颜不常的美人挽回了她受损的公众形象。

The volatile beauty salvaged her tarnished public image.所有这些动辄引起的疑心最终酿成悲剧。

All these volatile suspicions culminated in tragedy.双语名著

I'm very volatile

, for instance. And I have trouble making up my mind about things.比方说,我很容易发脾气,也满优柔寡断的。

出自挪威作家乔斯坦·贾德创作的关于西方哲学史的长篇小说《苏菲的世界》(

Sophie's World)。《苏菲的世界》以小说的形式,通过一名哲学导师向一个叫苏菲的女孩传授哲学知识的经过,揭示了西方哲学史发展的历程。《苏菲的世界》被誉为20世纪百部经典著作之一。

同近义词

mercurial: subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind

capricious: given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour

whimsical: acting or behaving in a capricious manner


🔍 同近义词

  • mercurial: subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind
  • capricious: given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour
  • whimsical: acting or behaving in a capricious manner
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