释义 |
evanescentev‧a‧nes‧cent /ˌevəˈnesənt, ˌiː- $ ˌev-/ adjective literary  evanescentOrigin: 1700-1800 Latin present participle of evanescere ‘to disappear’ - Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame.
- If Western women remember how they once approached equality, they remember it as an evanescent dream that died unborn.
- She spoke to Frankl who guided her to what is eternal and evanescent in life.
- Talk is evanescent but writing leaves footprints.
- They were like a new kind of creature: light, evanescent, frivolous and absolutely predatory.
- This perception strikes one as promising, but the impression may be evanescent.
something that is evanescent does not last very long |