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ephemeral 音標拼音: [ɪf'ɛmɚəl] a. 朝生暮死,短命,短暫的 朝生暮死,短命,短暫的 ephemeral adj 1: lasting a very short time; " the ephemeral joys of childhood"; " a passing fancy"; " youth' s transient beauty"; " love is transitory but it is eternal"; " fugacious blossoms" [ synonym: { ephemeral}, { passing}, { short- lived}, { transient}, { transitory}, { fugacious}] n 1: anything short- lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form [ synonym: { ephemeron}, { ephemeral}] Ephemeral \ E* phem" er* al\, a. 1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Short- lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. " Ephemeral popularity." -- V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster] Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy. -- Sir J. Stephen. [ 1913 Webster] { Ephemeral fly} ( Zo[" o] l.), one of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus { Ephemera} and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larv[ ae] are aquatic; -- called also { day fly} and { May fly}. [ 1913 Webster]
Ephemeral \ E* phem" er* al\, n. Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 47 Moby Thesaurus words for " ephemeral": brief, brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous, dying, episodic, evanescent, evergreen, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting, fly- by- night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, half- hardy, hardy, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perennial, perishable, short, short- lived, subject to death, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile
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