Fleeting
['fliːtɪŋ] or ['flitɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) lasting for a markedly brief time; 'a fleeting glance'; 'fugitive hours'; 'rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass'; 'a momentary glimpse' .
校對:桑福德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fleet
(a.) Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. Transitory, transient, ephemeral, temporary, passing, evanescent, fugitive, flitting, flying, brief, short-lived, here to-day and gone tomorrow.
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同義詞及反義詞：
[See FLEET]
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例句/造句/用法:
- The thought was fleeting; for his attention was instantly drawn towards the inhabitant of this wretched abode. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It was impossible to help fleeting visions of another kind--new dignities and an acknowledged value of which she had often felt the absence. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Volley after volley they vomited upon the temple guards; volley on volley crashed through the thin air toward the fleeting and illusive fliers. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- He tried to scramble up the side of the cabin, and succeeded in catching a fleeting hold upon the thatched roof. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He, too, had caught a fleeting backward glimpse of cruel yellow eyes and half open mouth within startling proximity of his person. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- This fleeting glimpse of her past served to emphasize the sense of aimlessness with which Lily at length turned toward home. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I caught a fleeting grin passing across the features of the black as he heard her words. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- We stepped, as it were, right out of the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the most fleeting glance of the front of the house. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- At last he saw it, the thing the little monkeys so feared--the man-brute of which the Claytons had caught occasional fleeting glimpses. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Were it not for the help of words we should be dependent, like the lower animals, on the fleeting images of things. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- What faces are the most distinct to me in the fleeting crowd? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Born with the ear attuned to music and the eye to observe beauty, the hand of Art was to trace and make permanent the fleeting forms which melody and the eye impressed upon the soul of man. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Caliphronas had a fleeting smile on his lips as he said this, but looked so dangerous that Crispin touched Maurice on the arm. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Even the fleeting wind has been harnessed by man, and, as in the windmill, made to work for him (Fig. 119). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Indeed there was softness in her whole deportment--in her face, in her voice; but there was also reserve, and an air fleeting, evanishing, intangible. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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