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单词 short-lived
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short-livedadj.

/ʃɔːtlʌɪvd/the stress is variable
Forms: Also short-lif'd.
Etymology: < short adj. + live, life n. + -ed suffix2. Often apprehended as < lived past participle of live v.1 (compare smooth-spoken) and pronounced /-lɪvd/.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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