giddy的意思|giddy的解释-里氏词典

giddy ['gidi]

a. 眼花的, 头晕的

vt. (使)眼花, (使)眩晕

vi. (使)眼花, (使)眩晕

The children enjoyed twirling round and round, but I felt giddy just watching them.
孩子们喜欢不停地旋转，但我看着他们就头晕。
They looked down from a giddy height.
他们从令人眩晕的高度往下看。
A giddy climb to the topmast.
到船中桅的令人头晕的攀登

giddy
giddied, giddier, giddiest

[ adj ]

having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling

<adj.all>

had a dizzy spell

a dizzy pinnacle

had a headache and felt giddy

a giddy precipice

feeling woozy from the blow on his head

a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff

lacking seriousness; given to frivolity

<adj.all>

a dizzy blonde

light-headed teenagers

silly giggles

Giddy \Gid"dy\, v. i.
To reel; to whirl. --Chapman.

Giddy \Gid"dy\, v. t.
To make dizzy or unsteady. [Obs.]

Giddy \Gid"dy\, a. [Compar. {Giddier}; superl. {Giddiest}.] [OE.
gidi mad, silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw.
gidda to shake, tremble.]
1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling
about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of
the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall;
lightheaded; dizzy.

By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed. --Tate.

2. Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a
giddy precipice. --Prior.

Upon the giddy footing of the hatches. --Shak.

3. Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round
with celerity; gyratory; whirling.

The giddy motion of the whirling mill. --Pope.

4. Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable;
fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless. ``Giddy, foolish
hours.'' --Rowe. ``Giddy chance.'' --Dryden.

Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm.
--Cowper.

During the liquidity booms of the 1920s and 1980s, consumers and companies accumulated debt in a wild, giddy spree.
Merrill has been criticized in the past for overstaffing and overpaying its employees during Wall Street's previous booms, and the firm's officials are taking pains to avoid getting too giddy with the current success.
As policy analysts and intellectuals worry over "The End of History" and congratulate each other about "The Obsolescence of Major War," it might be wise to temper all the giddy optimism with the recollection that we have been here before.
In a deepening recession, with an increasingly fractured and inward-looking party, the Socialist vote is slipping at a giddy rate.
He hopes the London Bus companies will not demand the giddy buyers' premiums which have become the norm in the provinces.
Sugar-futures traders get giddy at the mere mention of the Soviets as potential buyers, but the anticipations have been dashed before.
In the UK, industrial and commercial companies took advantage of an increasingly giddy market to raise more than Pounds 8bn of fresh equity in the first half of 1993, compared with Pounds 5.3bn for the whole of 1992.
Tuesday's events heightened an already giddy feeling around English sports.
But here, AS Byatt communicates a love of words and a delight in their diversity and power that amounts, at times, to a giddy infatuation.
Although it's not likely to spark a giddy citizenry into launching fireworks, approval by Saturday of all 13 spending bills would be a political coup for both parties.
But if Wall Streeters visited the A.G. Edwards branch here, they might feel a little less giddy.
Are they metaphorical stand-ins for the poor woman? There's a giddy vulnerability to Smith's performance, and she undergoes a remarkable physical transformation _ from dowdy old lady to understanding older woman _ between the play's two acts.
She was not only lightheaded with relief, she was giddy with fright.
Unlike the giddy marijuana scenes from 1983's "Terms of Endearment" and 1985's "The Breakfast Club," these new films will take a decidely bleaker view of getting high.

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