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 flexible ['fleksәbl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 易曲的, 灵活的, 柔顺的, 能变形的, 可通融的

[医] 能屈的


  1. This tube is flexible but tough.
    这管子柔软但很坚固。
  2. We need a foreign policy that is more flexible.
    我们需要一个更为灵活的外交政策。
  3. Easily resuming original shape after being stretched or expanded; flexible.
    柔韧的，有弹性的伸长或扩展后容易恢复原状的；柔韧的


flexible
[ adj ]
  1. capable of being changed

    2. <adj.all>
    flexible schedules
  2. able to flex; able to bend easily

    3. <adj.all>
    slim flexible birches
  3. making or willing to make concessions

    4. <adj.all>
    loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet
  4. able to adjust readily to different conditions

    5. <adj.all>
    an adaptable person
    a flexible personality
    an elastic clause in a contract
  5. bending and snapping back readily without breaking

    6. <adj.all>


Flexible \Flex"i*ble\, a. [L. flexibilis: cf. F. flexible.]
1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being
turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable;
yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.

When the splitting wind
Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. --Shak.

2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not
invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable;
ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.

Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways
flexible to the will of the people. --Bacon.

Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.

3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a
flexible language.

This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.
--Rogers.

Syn: Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile;
obsequious; inconstant; wavering. -- {Flex"i*ble*ness},
n. -- {Flex"i*bly}, adv.

  1. It wants to protect its 'core values' of open access to the profession, flexible education and a common 'title' for accountants.
  2. Mr. Adelizzi declined to discuss reasons for the timing of Home Federal's applications, but said the moves put Home Federal "in the best position to remain flexible for the future."
  3. Pitney Bowes Inc., a leading maker of business machines in Stamford, Conn., helped pioneer flexible working hours to accommodate working parents, allowing them to arrive early some days and leave early on others.
  4. However she favoured a flexible approach that would help projects in frontier areas which might otherwise not be developed.
  5. That's because small businesses tend to be rather flexible, and can react to changes in consumer spending in the economy much more quickly.
  6. Other benefits are spread across the staff. The 24-hour banking service is run on flexible shift patterns.
  7. The changes are being introduced to secure a more flexible and cost-effective workforce.' The changes at Sock Shop are expected to affect about 400 people in nearly 100 shops.
  8. Mr. Bangemann, more flexible but carrying less clout than Mr. Stoltenberg, also held out the option of advancing the date of the tax cuts if a sudden deterioration of the West German economy demanded it.
  9. The CBI emphasises that schemes will need to be much more flexible in future.
  10. He said Pounds 50m would be withheld from colleges' budgets unless more 'flexible' contracts were introduced. But the largest union in the sector, the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education, refused to sign the deal yesterday.
  11. This is levied for up to 25 years. Steve Bee, the pensions manager, says: 'This is designed as a long-term savings product, but it is flexible if people's circumstances change.'
  12. The state has a crucial role in providing the necessary environment for such networks to thrive: not least, an educated and flexible workforce and sound public infrastructure.
  13. Female executives also are more flexible than males.
  14. Official financing has played a central role in the debt strategy through the Paris Club ($73 billion of principal and interest have been consolidated since 1983) and the flexible policies of export credit agencies.
  15. Industrial relations has dramatically improved and the labour market is more flexible.
  16. It pays to be flexible on weight matters, however.
  17. With the help of the Gramm-Rudman law and a flexible budget freeze, a balanced budget can be expected by 1993.
  18. But Savimbi said recent statements by senior Angolan officials suggest a more flexible attitude on reconciliation.
  19. 'You cannot say we have not been flexible,' Mr Vernon Hince, senior assistant general secretary and chief negotiator of the RMT transport union, said yesterday.
  20. Mr. Bush's proposed "flexible freeze" in the budget would allow spending to rise only enough to match inflation.
  21. Recipes are personal and flexible.
  22. As proponents of public health, we are in favour of sensible and flexible regulation, but the imposition of VAT on food would be neither.
  23. But the U.S. also recognizes that it must be flexible despite Russia's current weakness; otherwise, Mr. Yeltsin may encounter resistance to a new arms-reduction pact from his resentful military.
  24. During the presidential campaign, the flexible freeze became Bush's all-purpose answer to queries on how he planned to increase spending for a variety of domestic programs while still lowering the budget deficit without an increase in taxes.
  25. These pads, for an assembly robot, are flexible and sensitive enough to wrap tightly around an object and identify it.
  26. And even some Republicans say a flexible freeze you just spoke about will hardly make a dent in the deficit.
  27. The danger, say many who follow the company closely, is that in its determination to become efficient and flexible AT&T may be jeopardizing the reputation for reliability that is one of its central assets.
  28. Conservatives are opposed to the creation of a federal European state.' The document appeals to the party to 'set out the case for a more flexible, decentralised Europe which respects national feeling and the nation state'.
  29. Be flexible, and expect appointments to be rearranged at the last moment. How do I get around? Taxis are plentiful, but drivers often know less about the city than a businessmen who has spent three days in it.
  30. Western diplomats visiting Kurdish cities were barred from visiting vacation resorts in mountain Kurdish villages on the grounds that their amply flexible schedules didn't allow them time.
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