Not permanent, but involving some stability or endurance.
非永久的；暂时的
the company employs him on a semi-permanent basis
公司暂时雇用他。
Example sentencesExamples
An examination of the shelves at my local organic supermarket yielded several options for both permanent and semi-permanent dyes.
Since I've been over here on this semi-permanent basis, I have found almost universal kindness and politeness.
It is now on display at the National Trust office in Coleshill on a semi-permanent basis.
I live in Alaska and I'm preparing to move to Thailand on a semi-permanent basis.
A colored film forms over each hair and washes off with shampoo - a safe way to test out a hair color before plunging into the realm of semi-permanent and permanent dyes.
The proposed could accommodate 11 taxis at any one time - eight permanent spaces and three semi-permanent.
It is significant to see that amongst the illustrations that he offered is the case of permanent or semi-permanent mental disorder calling for a wider range of care.
In the warmer months of spawning season longear sunfish are generally found in shallower, warmer headwaters of streams which have numerous pools with permanent or semi-permanent flow.
The patient has a tube inserted through the abdominal wall into the peritoneal cavity, and this remains in place on a semi-permanent basis.
Since the Middle Ages, the British army and its antecedents consisted of both a part-time force and a permanent or semi-permanent component.
First, it contains permanent, or semi-permanent, tax cuts when the need is for temporary one-time tax relief.
This week, they announced they will close another 800 on a semi-permanent basis due to staff shortages.
As a hunter-gatherer society, the Cahuilla established a number of permanent and semi-permanent settlements within the valley.
But where the state of affairs is permanent or semi-permanent, as may be so in the case of a mentally disordered person, there is no point in waiting to obtain the patient's consent.
Both options suggest that Africa should be given two permanent or semi-permanent seats.
Settlements were semi-permanent or permanent hamlets and villages, often in river valleys and at intervals of about 20 km.
Scientists have been trying for half a century to figure out a way to get us there on at least a semi-permanent basis, to no avail.
Winter hairstyles should contain warm colours, she informed me, so a chocolate-brown semi-permanent colour was used throughout, complemented by honey-coloured permanent highlights.
Permanent and semi-permanent homes resembling igloos were built of sticks and branches plastered with mud, and with cow dung on the roofs.
A large majority of those people will be living in semi-permanent or permanent houses in two years, the United Nations said.
Derivatives
semi-permanently
adverb
Photography is often associated with death - that is, a photograph semi-permanently records the image of a person whose death is inevitable.
Example sentencesExamples
The cars are semi-permanently connected by drawbars instead of couplers, so the noise of banging buffer plates and diaphragms is eliminated.
The males jealously defend sizeable territories within which small herds of related females and young may reside semi-permanently.
Some psychologists have even attempted to demonstrate that members of teams who are extremely successful develop semi-permanently elevated levels of adrenalin.
Thus there has been an increase in importance for this type of product amongst Brits, either resident in the UK or semi-permanently expatriate.