ephemeral
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源自新拉丁语 ephemerus,源自古希腊语 ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros),ἐφημέριος (ephēmérios, “仅持续一天的;仅在白天的;仅存活一天的;短命的;暂时的”)的更常见形式,源自ἐπί (epí, “在...之上,在”) + ἡμέρα (hēméra, “一天”)。
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ephemeral (复数 ephemerals)
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ephemeral (比较级 more ephemeral,最高级 most ephemeral)
- 转瞬即逝的,短暂的
- 近义词: temporary、transitory、fleeting、evanescent、momentary、short-lived、short、volatile;亦参见Thesaurus:ephemeral
- 反义词: permanent、eternal、everlasting、timeless
- 1821-1822, Vicesimus Knox, Remarks on the tendency of certain Clauses in a Bill now pending in Parliament to degrade Grammar Schools
- Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided.
- 1853, James Stephen, Lecture on the right use of Books:
- sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy
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- 1818, Mary Shelley, 章号 9, 出自 Frankenstein[1],于3 April 2012归档自原页面:
- It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows.
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- (生物学) 仅存在一天的,仅存活一天的 (如花朵,昆虫,疾病等)
- (地质学,指水体) 常年干涸但会在降雨时出现的
- 1986, W.H. Raymond, "Clinoptilolite Deposit in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.", in Yūichi Murakami et al. (editors), New Developments in Zeolite Science and Technology (conference proceedings), Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-444-98981-9, page 80:
- The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.
- 1986, W.H. Raymond, "Clinoptilolite Deposit in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.", in Yūichi Murakami et al. (editors), New Developments in Zeolite Science and Technology (conference proceedings), Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-444-98981-9, page 80:
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- “ephemeral”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
- “ephemeral”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
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