1. 不穩定的;不可靠的;動(dòng)蕩的 You can describe something as unstable if it is likely to change suddenly, especially if this creates difficulty or danger.
e.g. After the fall of Pitt in 1801 there was a decade of unstable government... 1801年皮特倒臺后,政府經(jīng)歷了10年的動(dòng)蕩。 e.g. The situation is unstable and potentially dangerous. 情況不穩定,可能有危險。
2. 不牢固的;松脫的 Unstable objects are likely to move or fall.
e.g. Both clay and sandstone are unstable rock formations. 黏土和砂巖都是不牢固的巖石構造。
3. (情緒)不穩定的,波動(dòng)的 If people are unstable, their emotions and behaviour keep changing because their minds are disturbed or upset.
e.g. He was emotionally unstable... 他情緒不穩定。 e.g. Coleridge was also a highly unstable person. 科爾里奇還是個(gè)情緒非常不穩定的人。
unstable英英釋義
adj
1. subject to change variable
e.g. a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty everything was unstable following the coup
Synonym: fluid
2. affording no ease or reassurance
e.g. a precarious truce
Synonym: precarious
3. highly or violently reactive
e.g. sensitive and highly unstable compounds
4. disposed to psychological variability
e.g. his rather unstable religious convictions
5. suffering from severe mental illness
e.g. of unsound mind
Synonym: mentally illunsound
6. lacking stability or fixity or firmness
e.g. unstable political conditions the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind an unstable world economy