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lastingfor only ashorttime, thendisappearingquicklyand beingforgotten 短暂的，转瞬即逝的；迅速遗忘的Synonymsbrief(SHORT IN TIME) ephemeral fleeting fugitive(TEMPORARY)formal momentary passing short-lived transientformal transitoryformal SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesShort in time - abbreviated
- at a moment's/two hours'/three weeks', etc. noticeidiom
- awhile
- be short noticeidiom
- bite-sized
- brief
- dose
- fit
- jiffy
- micro-moment
- minute
- mo
- moment
- momentarily
- momentary
- shortish
- transient
- trice
- twinkling
- wee hours
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: - About a sudden hillside, brilliantly blue, the evanescent mist hung over the heavy fronds, going out in the sunlight that was breaking through a grey sky.
- But even that joy was fleeting and evanescent: they never reached maturity.
- It arises when rigid ideal terms are imposed on evanescent existence.
- It is probably but an evanescent remedy, and capable of rendering the cattle safe during one night only.
- Like all the glories of the May woods it is evanescent.
Examplesofevanescentevanescent Due to theirevanescentcharacter, for surface gravity waves this dependence is on the scale of the dominant wavelength of the waves.From theCambridge English Corpus The second acoustic mode, with a phase velocity less than the thermal velocity, is found to beevanescent(refractive index purely imaginary).From theCambridge English Corpus We have shown that the branches with real frequency exist only if there areevanescentwaves in the external regions.From theCambridge English Corpus The best rock, he believes, 'simultaneously achieves a synthesis ofevanescentjunk and lasting beauty and sets up a conflict between them' (p. 36).From theCambridge English Corpus In their model, theevanescentelectromagnetic field in the skin layer of the overdense plasma was calculated, too.From theCambridge English Corpus It is pervasive, and it f lourishes in the personal,evanescentcontext of face-to-face exchange.From theCambridge English Corpus The merging of the concrete and theevanescentwas the unique pathway to the abstract truth of the soul.From theCambridge English Corpus In some hands, the concept of peace has been so narrowly defined as to beevanescentor non-existent.From theCambridge English Corpus If it isevanescentthen the multiplicity is 2 or 4, according to how many types of branches tend to the limiting solution.From theCambridge English Corpus No evidence is guaranteed to be pertinent, nor direct proof of a claim, just like relativity is supported byevanescentobservations.From theCambridge English Corpus And yet this object is fragile andevanescent.From theCambridge English Corpus Yet language too is an object of sensory perception, even though it is moreevanescentthan others, especially in its spoken form.From theCambridge English Corpus It can be speculated that similar butevanescentstructures are formed in liquids and solids near the glass transition, extending the generality of the phenomenon.From theCambridge English Corpus Similarly, autonomic reactivity isevanescentand more promptly responsive to rest, while cortisol responses persist over longer periods of time.From theCambridge English Corpus As the inertio-gravitywaves of zero frequency areevanescent, no waves are present in the lee of the obstacle.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |