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单词 transience
释义
transience
noun[U]
formal
uk
/ˈtræn.zi.əns/us
/ˈtræn.zi.əns/
thequalityof beingtransient(=temporary):
短暂，转瞬即逝，无常
the transience ofhumanexistence/fame人类存在/名声的短暂性
Herpaintingsaremetaphorsfor the transience andfragilityoflife.她的画作是对生命的短暂和脆弱的隐喻。
mainlyUS
thefactoflivingonlytemporarilyin aplace:
（在某处）短居，暂住
In many Americancities, transience in one's 20s and 30s is anacceptedpartofmodernlife.在美国许多城市，20多岁和30多岁的人在各处短居是现代生活中广为接受的一部分。
Thecityappealstogangsbecause of the transience of thepopulation.这个城市人口流动性很高，对黑帮很有吸引力。
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transient
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  • Thesepeoplehighlightthe transience offameand thelengthssome will go to inachievingit.
  • Sucheventsmake usthinkaboutourtransience anddeath.
  • The New Yorker hasledalifeof transience andloss.
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  • here today, gone tomorrowidiom
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  • nine
  • non-established
  • pro tem
  • provisional
  • scratch
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People who live or settle somewhere
(Definition oftransiencefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftransience

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In terms of the notions oftransienceand durability introduced above, the emphasis thus seems to be ontransience.
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Thistransienceis further highlighted by the fact that there were no permanent political organizations.
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Poverty andtransiencewere just the first of the family's suspicious traits.
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Within the farmstead itself, however, there is still periodic renewal andtransienceat play.
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Settling in and moving on :transienceand older people in care homes.
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We now use thetransienceof nonintersecting walks to show that the time t cannot be too large.
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He did not fear his own death, but that of others flung thetransienceof the world hard into his face.
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That both have become signs oftransienceand meaningless consumption is part of his diagnosis of the modern condition.
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Others chose to emphasise thetransienceof mortal existence.
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Logically, these seeds may have a shorttransiencein or on the soil before germination.
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The preconscious, object-like condition of termless wandering recalls the primordialtransienceunderlying self-awareness, against which the intentional wakefulness of knowledge defines itself.
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The first and the second function contribute to thetransienceof particular forms, while the third function contributes to its continuity.
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They do not represent 'frontier ' communities characterized by high levels oftransienceand change.
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A shuffled synchrony was calculated to estimate the number of synchronous spikes that were simply due to the stimulustransienceand not the tight correlation.
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Boarding houses increasingly came to be associated in the public mind withtransience, immorality and vice.
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