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tran·sient AHD[trănʹshənt, -zhənt, -zē-ənt] D.J.[ˈtrænʃənt, -ʒənt, -ziːənt]K.K.[ˈtrænʃənt, -ʒənt, -ziənt]adj.（形容词）- Passing with time; transitory:短暂的：随时间消逝的；短暂的："the transient beauty of youth"(Lydia M. Child)“短暂的青春年华”(吕底亚M.蔡尔德)
- Remaining in a place only a brief time:短期的，临时的：在一个地方停留很短一段时间的：transient laborers.临时工
- Physics Decaying with time, especially as a simple exponential function of time.【物理学】 瞬变的：随时间延续而衰减的，尤指作为时间的一个简单的指数函数
n.（名词）- One that is transient, especially a hotel guest or boarder who stays for only a brief time.临时旅客：过路人，尤指只呆很短一段时间的旅馆住宿者
- Physics A transient phenomenon or property, especially a transient electric current.【物理学】 瞬变现象：一种瞬间变化的现象或性质，尤指瞬变的电流
- Alteration of Latin trānsiēns trānseunt- [present participle of] trānsīre [to go over] 拉丁语 trānsiēns的变化 trānseunt- trānsīre的现在分词 [越过]
- trāns [over] * see terə- 2trāns [从一边到另一边] * 参见 terə- 2
- īre [to go] * see ei- īre [走] * 参见 ei-
tranʹsiently adv.（副词）transient, transitory, ephemeral, fleeting, fugitive, momentary, evanescent- These adjectives mean lasting, existing, or staying for a short time.这些形容词都有持续，存在或停留很短一段时间的意思。
- Transient usually refers to what remains only briefly: Transient 通常指只停留很短一段时间的事物； We stayed at the inn as transient guests.我们在小酒馆中只作短暂停留。 "The moods were many and transient" (W.H. Hudson). “心绪纷繁但往往如过往烟云” (W·H·哈得孙）。
- Transitory more often means inherently short-lived or impermanent: Transitory 更多地指生来短命或不长久： "This false world is but transitory" (William Dunbar). “这个虚幻的世界只是昙花一现” （威廉·邓巴）。 "Action is transitory—a step, a blow,/The motion of a muscle, this way or that—/'Tis done" (William Wordsworth). “行动是短暂的－一个脚步，一击/肌肉的运动，这样或那样/这就完结了” （威廉·华兹华斯）。
- Ephemeral, which in its original sense means living or lasting only for a day,implies conspicuously brief existence or duration: Ephemeral 原来的意思是指只存活或延续一天的，暗指生存或延续时间非常短的意思： "the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed" (William Faulkner).“没有了古老而普遍的真理，任何故事都短暂并且注定要失败的” （威廉·福克纳）。
- Fleeting is applied to what slips away swiftly,often more swiftly than one would wish: Fleeting 用于形容迅速溜走的事物，经常它们消逝得比我们希望得要快： "Art is long, and Time is fleeting" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). “艺术无尽，而人生有涯” （亨利·沃兹华斯·朗费罗）。
- Fugitive especially describes what is elusive or quickly fades: Fugitive 专门用来形容躲避的或很快消失的事物： "I cannot praise a fugitive . . . virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary" (John Milton).“我不能赞扬一种易变的美德，它没有经受过考验、没有抛头露面，从来就没有挺身而出并勇敢地面对敌人” （约翰·弥尔顿）。
- Momentary implies the brevity of or as if of a single moment: Momentary 指一瞬或象一瞬那样短暂的； I had some momentary misgivings that were quickly resolved.我曾有过短暂的疑虑，但很快都烟消云散了。
- Evanescent suggests that something disappears like vapor: Evanescent 意指象蒸气一样消失的事物： "The incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind" (Samuel Johnson). “给传记增添光彩的是那些转瞬即逝的事件” （萨缪尔·约翰逊）
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