Ephemeral

(adj.) 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' .

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• Being lofty about the passing fad and the ephemeral outcry is all very well in the biographies of dead men, but rank nonsense in the rulers of real ones. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The ephemeral nature of the vast majority of hypotheses and the dange r to progress of accepting an unverified assumption justify the demand for demonstrative e vidence. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• These tinctured the silent bosom of the clouds above them and lit up their ephemeral caves, which seemed thenceforth to become scalding caldrons. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Hermione was established for ever, she herself was ephemeral and had not yet even arrived. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• As is usual with bright natures, the deity that lies ignominiously chained within an ephemeral human carcase shone out of him like a ray. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Why should I toil for years at art, and gain at the end but ephemeral fame? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It is not surprising, therefore, that the public regard the scientific hypothesis with a kind of contempt; for a hypothesis (?π?θεσι?, foundation, supposition) is necessarily ephemeral. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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