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 flexibility [`flɛksə'bɪlətɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 弹性, 适应性

[计] 灵活性; 适应性

[化] 柔性; 柔韧性; 柔曲性

[医] 屈曲性

[经] 弹性


  1. Flexibility, as in the shaft of a golf club.
    弹性，韧性柔韧性，易变性，如高尔夫球棒的柄
  2. Plan ahead but maintain flexibility.
    96、事前计划，但要保持弹性。
  3. We aren' t offering any flexibility.
    我们不做任何调整。


flexibility
[ noun ]
  1. the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped

    2. <noun.attribute>
  2. the quality of being adaptable or variable

    3. <noun.attribute>
    he enjoyed the flexibility of his working arrangement
  3. the trait of being easily persuaded

    4. <noun.attribute>


Flexibility \Flex`i*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. flexibilitas: cf. F.
flexibilite.]
The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness;
pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of
hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.
--Sir I. Newton.

All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. --Macaulay.

  1. Growth has been sustained by focusing policies on improving the efficiency and flexibility of our economies and by strengthening our cooperative efforts and the coordination process.
  2. The companies' top goal is getting the union to agree to flexibility in how vehicles are built.
  3. An advantage to such an approach is flexibility.
  4. It may be that labour-market flexibility and the growth of self-employment will bring more people into the workforce than would otherwise have been the case.
  5. The central bank cautioned that borrowing to fund costs of this magnitude "would increase interest payments so sharply that fiscal flexibility would be lost and tax increases will need to be made, which would worsen the overall economy."
  6. According to the sources, Carlucci has approved the idea of "providing flexibility" to the Navy on convoys.
  7. But as the timescale involves decades rather than years, such improvements cannot be expected to serve as a substitute for greater wage flexibility.
  8. The new deal "increases LIN's financial flexibility as we move ahead with the development of the nationwide seamless cellular network," said Craig O. McCaw, chairman and chief executive of both LIN and McCaw Cellular.
  9. If necessary, he can tell the strings exactly what he wants in terms of "how much bow to use in a piano or a forte, how much more air I need so the sound has more flexibility."
  10. "You have to allow yourself the flexibility and time to get on with the next step."
  11. "The federal government could help us out with more flexibility on how we spend their money," Gov. Campbell says.
  12. Employers and the government argued that the proposed labor legislation would reduce the flexibility of unions and industries to negotiate the length of the work week.
  13. To Ford, flexibility involves such things as occasionally moving skilled workers to the production line to test machinery they've repaired.
  14. "It's great for me," said Pam Skallinger of Maplewood, Mich., who has been a temporary for six years. "I've got all the benefits plus the flexibility.
  15. Baker told a House subcommittee that "we're willing to stand up and be counted" on such a plan because it would result in the flexibility to put foreign aid money where it is most needed.
  16. He later said he wanted to gain more flexibility in pursuing talks with Hun Sen, prime minister of the Vietnam-installed government in Cambodia.
  17. Because of the rule's flexibility, financial analysts say investors will have a hard time comparing companies that adopt early or wait until 1993, take the one-time hit or spread the impact over 20 years.
  18. However, one official indicated that the administration, in an effort to win congressional support, might show some flexibility.
  19. The railroad's favorable cash flow and earnings prospects and moderating capital spending needs should allow the parent to reduce its debt leverage to about the low to mid-40% range and give it more financial flexibility, S&P said.
  20. "The bomber gives you flexibility," said Rep. Norman Dicks, D-Wash. "You can't do it with cruise missiles because many of those (Soviet) targets are mobile targets.
  21. The buy-out will create "a debt-servicing burden that will impair the company's operating and financial flexibility," Moody's said.
  22. A few are now acting to allow more flexibility.
  23. Asked about news reports suggesting a possible framework for negotiations between Moscow and the rebellious Baltic state, Fitzwater said: "The statements this morning do appear to show some flexibility.
  24. The management gains the flexibility it badly needs to rejuvenate its store chains - some of which have not been refurbished for 10 years.
  25. While U.S. helicopter pilots were bravely defending themselves against Iranian patrol boats in the Gulf, the Senate's idea of support was to debate whether to limit the flexibility of the commander in chief in helping those pilots succeed.
  26. Conservation, trade, research and grain storage proposals are close to Grange objectives, but flexibility, dairy and the administration's plan to kill federal crop insurance are at odds with current Grange policy.
  27. A Lone Star spokeswoman said regulators also agreed to give American Federal "more flexibility" to pay dividends.
  28. Instead of paying damages companies can agree to indemnify the agent for a sum equivalent to a maximum of one year's commission. The change has been welcomed by companies because of the greater flexibility it affords in negotiating new agreements.
  29. The modest sail plan is split into three via the cutter rig, giving greater flexibility and safety since crews on deck are always handling smaller sails than would be the case with a single headsail.
  30. Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos said they were simple folks, but they lived in an ornate citadel of self-glorification from which they ruled the Philippines with a curious mixture of dictatorship and flexibility, reform and stagnation.
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