- 1（天氣、市場、人心等）難以預料的變化、無常。常用固定說法「the vagaries of ...」，語氣帶點無奈的自嘲。
The vagaries of something are its sudden, odd changes — the ones nobody can predict and nobody can control, but which still land on you.
The most common partner by far is weather: the vagaries of the weather, the vagaries of the British climate. After that come markets and money (the vagaries of the stock market), rules and systems (the vagaries of the tax code), and people's moods or behaviour (the vagaries of fashion, the vagaries of her temper).
Two things make this word behave in its own way. First, it almost always appears in the plural. "A vagary" exists, but it sounds strange and old; write vagaries. Second, it almost always appears in the fixed shape "the vagaries of ___". If you learn that whole phrase as one chunk, you will use it correctly.
The tone is formal, and a little bit — a small shrug in it. When people talk about the vagaries of something, they are usually saying: this thing is beyond me, I cannot plan around it, so I have made peace with it. It is complaining, but gently and with humour, not with anger.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- vagary
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