early 13c., "apt to move," from un- (1) "not" + stable (adj.). Similar formation in Middle High German unstabel. Meaning "liable to fall" is recorded from c. 1300; sense of "fickle" is attested from late 13c. An Old English word for this was feallendlic, which might have become *fally.
unstable 英文释义
1. lacking stability or fixity or firmness;
"unstable political conditions"
"the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"
"an unstable world economy"
2. highly or violently reactive;
"sensitive and highly unstable compounds"
3. affording no ease or reassurance;
"a precarious truce"
4. suffering from severe mental illness;
"of unsound mind"
5. disposed to psychological variability;
"his rather unstable religious convictions"
6. subject to change; variable;
"a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"
"everything was unstable following the coup"
unstable 双语例句
1. Their politics consisted of unstable power-plays between rival groups.
他们的政治活动包括竞争团体间反复多变的打压行动。
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2. The situation is unstable and potentially dangerous.
情况不稳定，可能有危险。
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3. She was physically delicate and psy-chologically unstable.
她身体孱弱，心理上也不够稳定。
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4. Both clay and sandstone are unstable rock formations.
黏土和砂岩都是不牢固的岩石构造。
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5. Europe had become infinitely more unstable and fragmented.
欧洲已经变得相当不稳定，也越来越分化。
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unstable 实用场景例句
The political situation remains highly unstable.
政局仍然十分动荡。
牛津词典
chemically unstable
化学上不稳定的
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After the fall of Pitt in 1801 there was a decade of unstable government...
1801年皮特倒台后，政府经历了10年的动荡。
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The situation is unstable and potentially dangerous.
情况不稳定，可能有危险。
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Both clay and sandstone are unstable rock formations.
黏土和砂岩都是不牢固的岩石构造。
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He was emotionally unstable...
他情绪不稳定。
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Coleridge was also a highly unstable person.
科尔里奇还是个情绪非常不稳定的人。
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Rock walls resting against glaciers will become unstable as ice disappears and so set off avalanches.
由于冰川消融,紧靠冰川的石崖变得不稳定,因此引发雪崩.
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It is well known that operating a process under unstable conditions is a challenging control problem.
众所周知,将程序操作在不稳定点的条件上是很具挑战性的控制问题.
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It shall initiate the specified reaction plan when the process becomes unstable or not statistically capable.
当过程变得不稳定或统计能力不足时,应采取规定的反应计划.
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A ship without a ballast is unstable.
一艘船如果没有压舱物,便不会稳定.
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Her mother, mentally unstable, eventually entered an asylum in 1885.
她的精神不稳定的母亲在1885年最终进了一家精神病院.
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During the period, many kinds of problems occur frequently, and the social structure is extremely unstable.
这一时期属社会问题多发期 、 社会结构最不稳定期.
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The patient's condition was unstable.
那患者的病情不稳定.
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Is your television picture wobbly ( unstable ) recently?
最近您的电视机图像不稳定?
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This article emphasizes a prediction of overbreak, the unstable wedge , for openings jointed rock mass.
本文着重于岩体中洞室超挖-不稳定楔形体的预测.
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The vocational commitment of novice teacher is in the indesicive and unstable stage.
新手型教师的职业承诺仍是一种选择性的阶段和状态,还不成熟、不稳定.
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Presuming the Three to be vanquished, the Horadrim's unstable fellowship began to dissipate.
可以料想在三大恶魔被击败之后, 赫拉迪姆那不稳固的友谊便开始消散了.
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When the plate becomes unstable, it buckles laterally.
当板失去稳定时, 就发生横向屈曲.
辞典例句
The situation was unstable.
局势不稳.
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This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.
这书橱很不结实,装不了这么多书.
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He was the most unstable kind of fool I had ever seen.
他是我所遇见过的最反复无常的傻瓜.
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The bed is rickety [ unstable ] .
这床不 牢.
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The political situation was unstable.
政局不稳.
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The political situation remains highly unstable.
政局仍然十分动荡。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
The situation is unstable and potentially dangerous.
情况不稳定，可能有危险。
柯林斯例句
After the fall of Pitt in 1801 there was a decade of unstable government.
