| 单词 | transient |
| 释义 | tran·sient I. 1. a. < not even spring beauty … was so transient — like music fading away — Ruth Suckow > < features of their culture were transient; they do not now exist — John Dewey > < the Leyden jar gave only transient electrical current, but the voltaic cell … provided a continuous source of current — S.F.Mason > < if the patient is examined … when the circulatory impairment is transient or rapidly compensated — Alfred Blalock > b. < transient agricultural population with discouraged settlers constantly pulling up stakes and drifting on — American Guide Series: Arizona > < the hotel accommodates transient guests > < the transient butterfly — Edna S. V. Millay > c. of a musical modulation 2. < the creation of the universe considered as a transient act > — contrasted with immanent 3. < dominant traits transient through succeeding generations > Synonyms: < after a transient seventh-century conquest by Assyria, Egypt experienced one more flourishing renascence (663-525) of its old patterns under native rulers — A.L.Kroeber > < guilt in Mrs. Clay's face as she listened … was transient: cleared away in an instant — Jane Austen > < the excitement of the examination may produce violent and rapid heart action, often associated with a transient systolic murmur — H.G.Armstrong > transitory and passing may suggest the notion of the inevitability of changing, ending, or dying out < their eyes were lifted from the earth … not concerned with its transitory things, soon to be consumed — H.O.Taylor > < the pleasures of taste, at best, are transitory — Virgil Thomson > < have omitted no important event and no incident of more than passing interest — Bernard De Voto > < men are given to the trick of having a passing fancy for somebody else in the midst of a permanent love, which reasserts itself afterwards just as before — Thomas Hardy > ephemeral may suggest the idea of living only for a day; it describes only that which endures for a similar brief period < the life of the mayfly is ephemeral > < the very best of our experience is not as good as our dreams: our most exquisite moments are flawed and fragmentary … ephemeral — David Cecil > momentary applies to that which endures only a moment or similar quite short period < being a work of men's hands, it gave the child a momentary sense of comfort, of companionship in the dreadful wild — C.G.D.Roberts > < the momentary lulls between succeeding waves — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > fleeting may suggest a flying transitoriness making it hard or impossible to arrest or apprehend the thing in question < to take advantage of these fleeting opportunities, one must have a quick control over his own mind — S.M.Crothers > < how to seize the fleeting impressions of that dream — P.E.More > fugitive may suggest that whatever is described may be thought of as in flight and seeking to escape apprehension < here is the last chance to feel young … but the days are fugitive and most of us are too busy — E.A.Weeks > < there were moments of fugitive sunshine, but of such brief duration that they but added to our misery — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > evanescent describes that which is quite fleeting and likely to vanish away; it may apply to the delicate, fragile, unsubstantial, and airy < the quality of her charm was evanescent … forever fleeing — Elinor Wylie > < of lusters with so evanescent a sheen their colours are felt, but never seen — Amy Lowell > < the scholar with perspective of his subject is aware … that part of his business is to distinguish the evanescent fad from permanent progress — A.L.Kroeber > short-lived stresses the fact of brevity of existence < as short-lived as Well's paper, lasting only from July 14 until October 15 — American Guide Series: Florida > II. 1. a. < motels cater chiefly to transients > b. < a city of permanent transients who shift … from one section to another — wherever they can find food and coal — Norman Cousins > < the great bulk of transients are law-abiding individuals … in pursuit of employment — H.A.Bloch > 2. a. b. |
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