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ephemeron

/ih-fem-uh-ron, -er-uhn/US // ɪˈfɛm əˌrɒn, -ər ən //UK // (ɪˈfɛməˌrɒn) //

昙花一现,瞬息万变,瞬息万变的,蜉蝣

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural e·phem·er·a [ih-fem-er-uh], /ɪˈfɛm ər ə/, e·phem·er·ons.

    • : anything short-lived or ephemeral.
    • : ephemera, items designed to be useful or important for only a short time, especially pamphlets, notices, tickets, etc.

Examples

  • All the techniques can turn your flowers from ephemera into mementoes.

  • Let not the ephemeron that lights on a baby's hand generalize too rashly upon the non-growing of organisms!

  • Its three hundred and sixty-five years were now as but the day of the ephemeron.

  • Like the ephemeron fly, they are born suddenly, and may be expected to die as soon.

  • The airy nothing of a sigh bears often a pastoral world or an orcus on its ephemeron's-wing.

  • The scent was so strong that the ephemeron was almost intoxicated by it.