fly-by-night
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n. 不可靠的人
adj. 不可信任的，不可靠的
adj.
短暂的，非持久的性的，一时的；不可信任的；
英英释义
fly-by-night[ 'flaibai,nait ]
n.a debtor who flees to avoid paying
adj.
of businesses and businessmen of questionable honesty
"a fly-by-night operation"
同义词：shady
ephemeral
"the symphony is no fly-by-night venture"
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
Temporary silence was broken by a new clerk sitting in the corner.
角落里坐着的新职员打破了暂时的安静。
The prosperity called by them is just a temporal phenomenon.
他们所谓的繁荣只是一个暂时的现象。
权威例句
Fly by NightFly by night
Fly by Night
"Fly-by-Night"Firms and the Market for Product Reviews
Secured Credit Cards Losing Fly-by-Night Image
‘Fly-by-night’ or here to stay?—The future for air express
FLY-BY-NIGHT BUILDERS IN HARBIN AND SHANGHAI
The Fly-by-Night Parrot
Winners, Losers and Fly-by-Nighters: Trade Policy with Risky Investment in Quality
Oh, These Fly-by-Night NRI Depositors
Fly-By-Night. Robert Siodmak (1942)
EARHART NAMESAKE'S JOURNEY NO FLY-BY-NIGHT AFFAIR
TWITTER AIMS TO TURN FLY-BY-NIGHTERS INTO USERS
fly-by-night (n.)
1796, slang, said by Grose to be an old term of reproach to a woman signifying that she was a witch; used from 1823 in reference to anyone who departs hastily from a recent activity, especially while owing money. The different senses involve the two verbs fly.
1. Clearly, it was a fly-by-night organization.
很明显，那是个骗人的组织。
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2. I want a reputable tour operator not one of those fly-by-night ones.
我想找一家信誉好地旅行社，而不是那些靠不住地公司。
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3. I want a reputable tour operator, not one of these fly-by-night outfit.
我想找个有信誉的旅行社，而不是这种不可靠的机构。
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4. More than likely she's some fly-by-night gypsy, out to make a quick buck.
她更像个不可靠的吉普赛人，出来搞点儿快钱。
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5. As business schools across Asia mature, experts say quality programmes will be differentiated from fly-by-night operations.
专家们表示，随着亚洲商学院逐渐成熟起来，高质量的课程将与短暂运作区别开来。
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6. But his business turned out to be fly-by-night: he collected people's deposits on new cars and then disappeared with everybody's money.
可是，他的公司原来是骗人的。他收了人们买新车付的定金，然后拿了这些钱就不见了。
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7. The admission brochure of a fly-by-night school will often emphasize that the president received this or that doctorate insgroupsto persuade readers that it is a good school.
野鸡大学的招生简章上还常常强调校长得过这个博士学位或那个博士学位，以此让读者信服这是个好学校。
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8. Fly-by-night schools tend to share certain characteris-tics. For example, they may state that you can get a bache-lor's degree by paying, say, , a master's degree for , a doctorate for ,000.
野鸡大学往往有某些特征:例如,他们会说你交一笔钱,比如说5000美元,就可以得到学士学位,交7000美元可得到硕士学位,交10000美元得到博士学位。
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9. Even some of Mr Ozawa’s supporters concede that Mr Kan is marginally more likely to win, because he enjoys more popular support and the nation is sick of a succession of fly-by-night leaders.
即便是小泽的一些支持者都认为菅直人获胜的可能性更大。因为他获得了更为广泛的支持，并且国民对失去信誉的领导者充满厌恶情绪。
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10. Even some of Mr Ozawa's supporters concede that Mr Kan is marginally more likely to win, because he enjoys more popular support and the nation is sick of a succession of fly-by-night leaders.
即便是小泽的一些支持者都认为菅直人获胜的可能性更大。因为他获得了更为广泛的支持，并且国民对失去信誉的领导者充满厌恶情绪。
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11. But Chua believes such less-than reliable valuation outfits won't survive in the long run. "If you want to be a fly-by-night company, yeah why not, you can put a value to anything you want."
但Chua相信这些可靠性缺失的评估公司不会生存太久，“如果你想办成一家没有信誉的企业，为什么不这么干，你可以对任何事务进行评估。”
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12. For Mr Chandler it was managers, patiently building and running large organisations, who were the real heroes of the industrial age, and not fly-by-night entrepreneurs, as some romantics taught.
对钱德勒而言，是管理者在耐心地建造和经营大型机构，他们才是工业时代真正的英雄，并且，管理者不像某些浪漫主义者所教的那样，是不可靠的企业家。
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13. They flutter through our dreams at night, they fly with us in our wheelings and circlings by day.
它们在夜里拍着翅膀，飞过我们的梦，在白天，它们和我们一起在天上盘旋。
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14. But I don't know if he understands so I end by saying "When you fly at night you feel closer to the stars."
但我不知道他是否能听明白，我便打断了话头，“晚上飞行的时候，你会感觉离星星近些的。”
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15. A few aches, an empty belly, chills by night … what does it matter when you can fly?
一点点疼痛，一个空腹，还有夜晚的寒颤……当你能够翱翔，这些又算得了什么？
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16. But I don't know if he understands, so I end by saying, "When you fly at night, you feel closer to the stars."
但我不知道他是否能听明白，我便打断了话头，“晚上飞行的时候，你会感觉离星星近些的。”
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17. This was followed by accommodation: slightly, the fifth night five-star hotel living, we fly back to their warm homes.
其次是住宿安排：略，第五晚住五星级宾馆，大家坐飞机各自回到温馨的家。
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18. It is designed to fly day and night by saving surplus energy from its 12,000 solar cells in high-performance batteries.
它旨在通过保存一天飞从12,000高性能电池，太阳能电池的剩余精力的夜晚。
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19. It is designed to fly day and night by saving surplus energy from its 12,000 solar cells in high-performance batteries.
它旨在通过保存一天飞从12,000高性能电池，太阳能电池的剩余精力的夜晚。
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