单词 | short-lived |
释义 | short-livedadj. 1. Having a short life. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > short-lived > [adjective] momentary1587 short-lived1598 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 54 Such short liued wits do wither as they grow. View more context for this quotation 1606 B. Jonson Hymenaei 6 So short-liv'd are the Bodies of all Thinges, in comparison of their Soules. a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) ii. 3 The short lif'd days of flesh and blood. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 336 The Plants indeed were short-liv'd, and continued no longer than the Heat of the Vessels lasted. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 591 The peach being a short-lived tree. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. i. vi. 168 Gymnasts are short lived. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) i. i. 13 The million species of organisms of which he [man] is the short-lived lord. 2. a. transferred. Lasting only a short time, brief, ephemeral. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective] slidinga900 scrithingOE henwardOE swifta1225 short livya1325 passing1340 flittingc1374 shadowy1374 temporalc1384 speedfula1400 transitory?c1400 brittlea1425 unabidingc1430 frail?c1450 indurablec1450 scrithel?c1475 caduke1483 transitorious1492 passanta1500 perishinga1500 caducea1513 fugitive?1518 caducal?1548 quick1548 delible1549 flittering1549 undurable?1555 shadowish1561 fleeting1563 vading1566 flightful1571 wanzing1571 transitive1575 slipping1581 diary1583 unlasting1585 never-lasting1588 flit1590 post-like1594 running1598 short-lived1598 short-winded1598 transient1599 unpermanent1607 flashy1609 of a day1612 passable1613 dureless1614 urgenta1616 waxena1616 decayable1617 horary1620 evanid1626 fugitable1628 short-dated1632 fugacious1635 ephemerala1639 impermanent1653 fungous1655 volatile1655 ephemerousa1660 unimmortal1667 timesome1674 while-being1674 of passage1680 journal1685 ephemeron1714 admovent1727 evanescent1728 meteorous1750 deciduous1763 preterient1786 ephemeridal1795 meteorica1802 meteor1803 ephemerean1804 ephemerid1804 evanescing1805 fleeted1810 fleet1812 unenduring1814 unremaining1817 unimmortalized1839 impersistent1849 flighty1850 uneternal1862 caducous1863 diurnal1866 horarious1866 brisk1879 evasive1881 picaresque1959 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. i. 15 O short liu'd pride. View more context for this quotation 1645 E. Waller To Amoret in Poems 60 Then smile on me, and I will prove Wonder is shorter liv'd then Love. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 256. ¶5 Admiration is a very short-lived Passion. 1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son liii. 535 I was made a short-lived toy, and flung aside more cruelly and carelessly than even such things are. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. v. 18 He afforded a short-lived triumph to the enemies of Religion. b. Metallurgy. ΚΠ 1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 22/1 Sulphur..makes molten iron ‘short-lived’. c. Of a radioisotope or subatomic particle: having a relatively short half-life. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > radioactive isotope > [adjective] > having short half-life short-lived1926 1926 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity xxiii. 170 Short-lived thorium isotopes like uranium X, radiothorium, etc. 1947 Radiology 49 286/2 The tracer and therapeutic studies with ‘short-lived’ artificially produced radioactive isotopes were not directed toward the study of the more general biologic effects. 1973 L. J. Tassie Physics Elem. Particles ix. 91 Since the weak interaction causing the decay of the neutral kaon does not conserve CP, the short-lived neutral kaon and the long-lived neutral kaon are not necessarily eigenstates of CP. Derivatives shortˈlivedness n. brief duration. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] shorthead1340 briefnessa1400 brevity1542 momentaniness1635 momentariness1648 shortlivedness1817 momentaneity1921 short-windedness1934 1817 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform Introd. 69 In proportion to the short-livedness of the power, diminishes, both to purchasers, and thence to sellers, the venal value of it. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. i. 6 The shortlivedness of their organisations. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1598 |
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