wayward的意思|wayward的解释-里氏词典

wayward ['weiwәd]

a. 任性的, 难以捉摸的, 不稳定的, 刚愎的

[法] 顽强的, 任性的, 不规则的

That wayward child is very hard to teach.
那个任性的孩子很难教。
The wayward older twin brother of Jacob.
他是雅各的双胞胎儿子中的老大.
She has always been a wayward individual.
她一直是个任性的人。

wayward

[ adj ]
resistant to guidance or discipline
<adj.all>
Mary Mary quite contraryan obstinate child with a violent temper
a perverse mood
wayward behavior

Wayward \Way"ward\, a. [OE. weiward, for aweiward, i. e., turned
away. See {Away}, and {-ward}.]
Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse;
willful.

My wife is in a wayward mood. --Shak.

Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. --Fairfax.

Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought? --Keble.
※ -- {Way"ward*ly}, adv. -- {Way"ward*ness}, n.

The wayward Exxon Valdez plowed into Bligh Reef.
My wife wasn't surprised, because I've always done kind of wayward and unexpected things in my career.
LTV spokeswoman Debbie Kavulich said her company took the necessary precautions prior to New Year's Day at the company's mooring facility three miles upstream from Pittsburgh, where 15 of the wayward barges came from.
The towing companies that owned the wayward vessels moved the last barges from the Maxwell Dam 30 miles south of Pittsburgh on Sunday.
Here is a quick glossary, with one or two oblique references to England's current visitors, New Zealand. Aerosol bowler - usually a wayward paceman, literally someone who sprays it everywhere.
After a tour with the Navy in World War II, Cunningham and his wife, Ruth, bought an 840-acre ranch near Wichita, Kan. Cunningham tended exotic animals and he and his wife cared for any wayward or troubled child sent his way.
Five years ago: The space shuttle Discovery blasted off into orbit in pursuit of two wayward satellites that the astronauts would retrieve in a daring salvage mission.
"I had no choice but to let go," ending up with a bruised elbow, black and blue hip and a `little finger that blew up like a balloon." Two children surveyed by the doctors had teeth knocked out by wayward ropes.
As Paul and Spenser track the wayward Patty, they engage in a running dialogue about parental responsibility, filial need and the nature of romantic love.
He has not been long enough in the higher echelons of the bank to be seduced by some of NatWest's more wayward dreams. The downside is that he is undoubtedly clever and this is not always good in a straightforward business like banking.
The program hasn't been spared criticism from people who don't want wayward youths relocated to their neighborhoods.
As the gap between the shuttle and the wayward laboratory closed, hunter and hunted were traveling nearly 200 miles high at more than 17,400 mph.
Politics in this wayward city have always been a bit odd.
Local authorities will be able to take action to stop noise, including entering a car to silence a wayward alarm. 6 THURSDAY Bundesbank council meets The policy-making council of the German central bank holds its first session of 1994.
A wayward nut from a candy bar may someday bear fruit for Lorene Arnold.
Only with a needless sub-plot involving tomboy Thora Birch and her wayward father does the film go over the top. A very different form of sentimentality is at work in Autobus, a witty and anarchic look at youthful alienation, French style.
Humphrey, the wayward whale who captured the nation's heart while wandering through San Francisco Bay five years ago, got stuck on mudflats and then on a submerged rock in the bay Monday.
President Reagan sent a note of thanks to a wildlife ranger who plucked a wayward bald eagle from a beach in Ireland and helped it resettle in the United States.
Both men are the same age - 51 - and were given the same task of sorting out their employers' wayward US banking affiliates. Both have only been doing the job for just over a year yet already seem to be getting spectacular results.
Other ships are involved in toxic transport, but because of the length of its voyage the wayward freighter came to symbolize the problem of toxic dumping, particularly in the Third World.
Devon Malcolm is always fast, often wayward and usually lonely -a true Derbyshire man.
The great Victorian bridge pile shrugs off serious damage when, from time to time, a wayward tidal current smashes a ship into it.
"It wasn't economic or feasible," Mr. Incendy explained when asked about the wayward deals last week.
Mr. Payne writes from Sandpoint, Idaho, on the wayward ways of Washington and other foreign capitals.
A wayward freighter carrying toxic wastes can unload its unwanted cargo in Britain if it is properly contained and documented, environmental officials said Saturday.
Several bills would give wayward taxpayers six months in which to settle their accounts with the IRS.
No other story so well illustrates her intrusion in times of crisis as that which I recount below, during the late rebellion of His Majesty's wayward subjects.
Of course Gould was a wayward and sometimes downright perverse genius - as unpredictable in his choice of repertory as in his interpretations.
The new KIO management nevertheless, appears to have decided to make disposals at both Ercros and Prima. The Peat Marwick report contradicts the impression being sown by the new KIO team that Torras's Spanish management was wayward.

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