| 单词 | wayward |
| 释义 | wayward adjective old-fashioneduk/ˈweɪ.wəd/us/ˈweɪ.wɚd/doing only what youwantand oftenchangingyourbehaviourin a way that isdifficulttocontrol （尤指某人的行为）反复无常的，任性的，难以管束的Synonyms contrary perversedisapproving Uncontrolled
wayward| American Dictionarywayward adjective us/ˈweɪ·wərd/notbehavingormovingasexpected: He was a waywardkid. A waywardballbouncedinto theyard. Examplesofwaywardwayward But the mileage covered is so great and the argument sowayward, that the essay fails to convince. From theCambridge English Corpus While he appreciated chemists' labor and skill in harnessing nature, he could not endorse the discourse of chemical philosophy that was open towaywardinterpretations. From theCambridge English Corpus The larger the space the morewaywardcan be the reception of the acousmatic image. From theCambridge English Corpus But these moments always pass, the ensemble seemingly uninterested in thewaywardcello. From theCambridge English Corpus Even in the completed marriage parallelogram,waywardmovement backward as well as forward is still apparent; elements keep reappearing to demand combination, and issue. From theCambridge English Corpus It is a device for counteracting the fleeting and selective nature ofwaywardaural attentiveness and memory during the sounding flow of music. From theCambridge English Corpus In some ways it is original and (especially in its coverage of idiom) exceptional; in other ways it appears unhelpfully idiosyncratic andwayward. From theCambridge English Corpus It was found that there is one personality that performs better than the average: thewaywardpersonality. From theCambridge English Corpus Such practice was quite common when discipliningwaywardpreachers. From theCambridge English Corpus Players had to temper thewaywardintonation of the natural harmonic series and to sharpen their techniques to meet the demands of composers and discriminating listeners. From theCambridge English Corpus The modern perspective entailed a master narrative that enabled us to trace the troubling departures of the interwar period to backwardness orwaywarddivergence from putatively normal modern development. From theCambridge English Corpus Radcliffe had not given any thought to the possibility of rivers changing course; a serious lapse in a province whose rivers were notoriouslywayward. From theCambridge English Corpus To say that chance rules the universe is therefore to say that contingency governs cognition; our knowing continuously struggles to make sense of an elusive andwaywardreality. From theCambridge English Corpus Nothing here turns out as we might expect it to: not the musical implications of thewaywardmaterial, and certainly not the meanings to which these give rise. From theCambridge English Corpus Chapter 7, the fourth chapter of section 2, enters into a history of experimental knowledge and attempts to control 'thewaywardinfluences of chance' (p. 160). From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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