| 释义 |
‖ sic transit|siːk ˈtrænzɪt|
Also erron. transitur.
[L.]
A catch-phrase expressing the impermanence of things, in full sic transit gloria mundi, ‘thus passes the glory of the world’.
The phrase is possibly an adaptation of a passage of Thomas à Kempis (see quot. a 1471). For the use of these words in papal coronations see King's Classical & Foreign Quotations (ed. 3, 1904) 319.
[a1471T. à Kempis Imitatio Christi (1827) i. iii. 7 O quam cito transit gloria mundi.] 1601B. Jonson Every Man in his Humour v. i. sig. Mv, See, see, how our Poets glory shines brighter and brighter, still, still it increaseth, oh now its at the highest, and now it declines as fast: you may see gallants, sic transit gloria mundi. 1777H. Walpole Let. 5 Dec. (1904) X. 163 General Howe must probably return to defend New York. Sic transit gloria mundi! 1833Lord Lytton Godolph. III. xxiii. 250 His breathing..died away as insensibly as an infant. Sic transit gloria mundi! 1851Geo. Eliot Let. 4 Oct. (1954) I. 364 Sic transitur—i.e. the money from my pocket. 1915D. H. Lawrence Crown in Reflections on Death of Porcupine (1925) 92 Despair comes over us when it [sc. the body] passes away. ‘Sic transit’, we say, in agony. 1951‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids v. 104 ‘Never—never again now will you see a sight like that,’ I told myself. ‘Sic transit—.’ 1965A. Nicol Truly Married Woman 16 They looked at it [sc. a Roman ruin] silently... ‘Sic transit,’ he'd said as they drove away. 1971S. Jepson Let. to Dead Girl v. 50 What was once my dressing room is dismantled..(Sic transit gloria mundi, and so on). |