英语释义

1. relating to, resembling, or characteristic of a squirrel
Where I live we used to have a real groundhog … moving through the too long grass in search of grubs, nuts, or other squirrelly snacks.
— Bill Dunphy

2. tending to be unusually active restless
That I was a squirrelly kid whose need to leap from the piano bench, run outside and roll around in the mud would sooner or later kill his chances of doing something meaningful with music.
— Andrew Corsello

3. odd, eccentric
… a mossbacked old hard-ass (… thirty-five or forty years old), just as squirrelly as hell and literally shivering with paranoia, who hops and whoops around those evergreen forests like some mangy, half-mad freak …
— Larry Heinemann Despite a long history of observations, [Don] Yeomans is worried about [comet] Kopff's predictability. "Halley was a very constant, well-behaved comet," he says. "But Kopff is a little squirrelly."
— Stephen Cole

4. lacking stability or control moving erratically
A little wind had kicked up, making the faster cars just a bit squirrelly through the chutes.
— Robert F. Jones

5. morally dubious or questionable
The squirrelly guy who sold Toph that cheap lock for his bike … just before we left Chicago—I wanted to punish that man—he said it was the best lock they had, "invincible, no sweat" he said—and the bike was stolen within the week.
— Dave Eggers Your X-Files contract is up at season's end, you're suing your own studio for making squirrelly rerun deals …
— Ken Tucker But I'm not buying any tickets yet. There's something a little squirrelly about the whole thing, don't you think?
— Stanley Bing

6. tending to move around a lot

7. very odd, silly, or foolish

片语

curious好奇的，有求知欲的；古怪的；爱挑剔的

odd奇数的；古怪的；剩余的；临时的；零散的

mad狂怒

crazy疯狂的；狂热的，着迷的

possessed着了魔的；拥有的；镇定的

英汉例句

• Apparently, some squirrelly little guy from Connecticut is, and Oliver Stone is making a small film about him.

  显然，那个名字叫做奥利弗斯通，就是从康乃狄格州来的古怪的家伙正在拍摄关于布什的小电影。

• d never go into business with him. He seems squirrelly to me.

  我决不会和他做生意，他看上去靠不住。

• Yet Treasury bonds acted squirrelly and fell rather than rose, as they had historically done.

  但美国国债走势怪异，非但没有像以往一样上升，反而走低。