ephemeral
英语
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[编辑]源自新拉丁語 ephemerus，源自古希臘語 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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[编辑]ephemeral (複數 ephemerals)
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[编辑]ephemeral (比較級 more ephemeral，最高級 most ephemeral)
- 转瞬即逝的，短暂的
- 近義詞：temporary、transitory、fleeting、evanescent、momentary、short-lived、short、volatile；亦參見Thesaurus:ephemeral
- 反義詞：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, 章號 9, 出自 Frankenstein[1]，於3 April 2012歸檔自原頁面:
- 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.
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- (生物學) 仅存在一天的，仅存活一天的 （如花朵，昆虫，疾病等）
- (地質學，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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[编辑]- “ephemeral”，Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary，Springfield, Mass.：G. & C. Merriam，1913年，OCLC 800618302
- “ephemeral”，The Century Dictionary […]，New York, N.Y.：The Century Co.，1911，OCLC 867766587
ephemeral在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 en
