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单词 fleetingly
释义
fleetingly
adverb
uk
/ˈfliː.tɪŋ.li/us
/ˈfliː.t̬ɪŋ.li/
in a way thatlastsonly ashorttime:
短暂地；迅速地
Iglimpsedher fleetingly through thewindow.我透过窗户匆匆地瞥见了她一眼。
Thesubjectwasmentionedonly fleetingly.这个问题只是被匆匆提了一下。
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  • They haveseeneach other only fleetingly inrecentyears.
  • Imethim fleetingly in thetowncentre.
  • Pierresawit only fleetingly before itdisappeared.
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Short in time
  • abbreviated
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  • awhile
  • be short noticeidiom
  • bite-sized
  • brief
  • dose
  • fit
  • jiffy
  • micro-moment
  • minute
  • mo
  • moment
  • momentarily
  • momentary
  • shortish
  • transient
  • trice
  • twinkling
  • wee hours
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(Definition offleetinglyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffleetingly

fleetingly
So here we have oh-prefacing as a feature of turn design which, howeverfleetingly, can indicate a difficulty about a question.
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Personal responsibility enters the picture onlyfleetingly, in the form of recriminations against oppressive political and social agents.
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These last canons are fragments, glimpses caughtfleetinglybut not recognized, impossible to perceive, ambiguous and obscure.
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Particular issues related to generic workers, and users' and carers' involvement with community rehabilitation teams are only mentionedfleetingly.
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Women are mentioned onlyfleetinglyin this connection, and then only as passing through.
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This 'little metamorphosis', which 'happensfleetinglybut unmistakably', is a 'sign of modernist cool'.
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The un-manipulated voices emerge onlyfleetinglyamidst a choir of resonated click consonants and elongated vowels.
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The effect of the habit, though, was to make thingsfleetinglyholy that would not otherwise seem so.
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These in turn can be brought to bear on personae that arefleetinglyand momentarily tried on and experimented with in the course of constructing story lines.
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In the seventeenth century, mitres, generally retained in heraldry, returned to bishops' heads on their monuments,fleetinglyin the 1630s, and substantially between 1660 and 1688.
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He saw characters peopling the scenes that might appear onlyfleetinglyin the written text, but were essential to the image of the scene and could not be ignored.
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Across the variations in substitute term use, a basic commonality is that the register is spokenfleetingly, as a one-word or one-phrase interruption in normal speaking.
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Within the experience of reading the novel, and within the reading scenes that it contains, overlapping formulations of desire do not so much compete as theyfleetingly, simultaneously co-exist.
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Stable prices are a blessed condition, but one that we in this country have not experienced other than veryfleetinglyfor 50 years.
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The construction industry is showing none of the signs of recovery that arefleetinglyapparent in some other parts of industry.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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