Erratic

(adj.) liable to sudden unpredictable change; 'erratic behavior'; 'fickle weather'; 'mercurial twists of temperament'; 'a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next' .

(adj.) likely to perform unpredictably; 'erratic winds are the bane of a sailor'; 'a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't'; 'that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute'- Osbert Lancaster .

(adj.) having no fixed course; 'an erratic comet'; 'his life followed a wandering course'; 'a planetary vagabond' .

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• Simultaneously the little boat spun around and shot out toward the Gulf Stream like an agitated and very erratic rocket, flinging great sheets of spray high into the air as it sped. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They held that stri ct law governs the apparently erratic movements of the heavenly bodies. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Hanging on the tail of a kite it photographs the face of mother earth, and, acting quicker than the lightning, it catches and defines the path of that erratic flash. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Though occasionally chatty, his moods were erratic, and nobody could be certain how he would behave at any particular moment. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Throughout a large part of the United States, erratic boulders and scored rocks plainly reveal a former cold period. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Slowly she swung from her course, circling back toward us in an erratic and pitiful manner. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The average individual does not bother himself much about the calculation of eclipses, or the laws which govern the movements of an erratic comet. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Erratic boulders have, also, been noticed on the Rocky Mountains. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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