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单词 evanescent
释义
evanescentev‧a‧nes‧cent /ˌevəˈnesənt, ˌiː- $ ˌev-/ adjective literary Word Origin
WORD ORIGINevanescent
Origin:
1700-1800 Latin present participle of evanescere ‘to disappear’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • 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
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