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ephemera

/ih-fem-er-uh/US // ɪˈfɛm ər ə //UK // (ɪˈfɛmərə) //

遗物,纪念品,遗书,残卷

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural e·phem·er·as, e·phem·er·ae [ih-fem-uh-ree] /ɪˈfɛm əˌri/ for 2.

    • : a plural of ephemeron.
    • : an ephemerid.

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Examples

  • Check out our gallery of other royal auction ephemera - including Queen Victoria's knickers!

  • The collages, which have never been exhibited, could be called ephemera.

  • The paintings, ephemera, wall texts, and audio tour construct a story of an obsessive, gifted genius who lived for love and art.

  • Oh yes, we can all bear it; and by so much we ephemera get back our lost significance, our sovereignty.

  • The tail of some species of the genus Ephemera is furnished with three long, jointed, hairy bristles.

  • At the spot of our encampment, as soon as the shades of night closed in, we were visited by hordes of ephemera.

  • The cut represents the circulation in the vessels of the larva of an Ephemera.

  • The best known is Ephemera vulgata, of which the sub-imago is called the "green drake," and the imago the "grey drake" by anglers.