Transitory

(a.) Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent.

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• I should like to know what well-constituted mind, merely because it is transitory, dislikes roast beef? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• How far as yet was it anything more than a dazzling but transitory flourish of his own magnificent self? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This original engrossing of uncultivated lands, though a great, might have been but a transitory evil. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And let us make the best of Becky's aristocratic pleasures likewise--for these too, like all other mortal delights, were but transitory. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• These feelings are transitory; each day's expectation delayed fills them with fear, and I almost dread a mutiny caused by this despair. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I did not then know that it was no transitory blossom, but rather the radiant resemblance of one, cut in an indestructible gem. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• As to their sweetness, nothing is so transitory; its date is a moment, the twinkling of an eye. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Fears, yes; but unsystematic fears; fancies and freaks of the imagination, but personal and transitory freaks and fancies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Is it the individual of whom I had formerly--hum--some--ha--slight transitory knowledge, and to whom I believe you have referred? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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