ephemeral

英 [ɪˈfemərəl]

美 [ɪˈfemərəl]

adj.  短暂的; 瞬息的

复数：ephemerals　

TOEFLIELTSGRETEM8医学

BNC.15628 / COCA.14116

牛津词典

adj.

• 短暂的；瞬息的
  lasting or used for only a short period of time

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 短暂的;瞬间的
  If you describe something asephemeral, you mean that it lasts only for a very short time.
  1. He talked about the country's ephemeral unity being shattered by the defeat...
     他谈到战败使得该国短暂的统一彻底破灭。
  2. These paintings are in some ways a reminder that earthly pleasures are ephemeral.
     这些画在某种意义上提醒人们世俗的享乐是短暂的。

英英释义

noun

• anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
  Synonym:ephemeron

adj

• lasting a very short time
  1. the ephemeral joys of childhood
  2. a passing fancy
  3. youth's transient beauty
  4. love is transitory but it is eternal
  5. fugacious blossoms
  Synonym:passingshort-livedtransienttransitoryfugacious

双语例句

• It makes our life fragile, ephemeral, and as a result of that, more precious.
  它让我们的生命脆弱，短暂，因此而更珍贵。
• My flower is ephemeral, and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world. And I have left her on my planet, all alone!
  我的花生命是短暂的，她只有四根刺可以保护自己，抵御世界，我却将她独自留在我的星球上了！
• Yet hope springs ephemeral in this production.
  然而，在这部作品中希望只是昙花一现。
• There smiles the Divine Child among his playthings of unmeaning clouds and ephemeral lights and shadows.
  那圣洁的孩子在乏味的云层和倏忽变幻的浮光掠影中嬉戏微笑。
• Never bowing to the whims of ephemeral fashion, we have always held on to solid and lasting values.
  决不屈从于古怪而短暂的时尚，我们始终紧紧坚持可靠与持久的价值。
• If an ephemeral disk fails, that failure is scoped to that host.
  如果临时磁盘坏了，那么故障的范围仅仅是那台主机。
• Ephemeral storage is the storage embedded in the virtual machine.
  临时性存储是嵌入在虚拟机中的存储。
• You've got a new horizon it's ephemeral style.
  你有了该死的新的短暂目标。
• The storage is called ephemeral, because when you shut down your instance, the information is gone forever.
  这种存储之所以称为临时存储，是因为当您关闭您的实例时，信息将永远消失。
• Time is eternal, while life is ephemeral.
  时间是永恒的，而生命确很短暂。