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fleeting

/flee-ting/US // ˈfli tɪŋ //UK // (ˈfliːtɪŋ) //

转瞬即逝,转瞬即逝的,稍纵即逝,稍纵即逝的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.

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Examples

  • Now, though, due to the pandemic, even those of us in urban environments find ourselves with a precious and fleeting opportunity to hear the sounds that the other inhabitants of the planet are making.

  • According to polling by Civiqs, for a fleeting moment early in the pandemic, there wasn’t such a big gap between Republicans and Democrats in terms of how they saw the economy.

  • Tracking demand and looking at year over year search trends, with Google Ads data as source, remains an accurate way to understand what changed for good, and what is just a fleeting trend depending on the short-term pandemic impact.

  • Our experience of The Fabulous has been reduced to fleeting sound-bites and awkward livestreams.

  • The fleeting existence of the quark pair above, like many virtual events, is represented by a Feynman diagram with a closed “loop.”

  • Fleeting moments are captured and stored, whether we want them to be or not.

  • Part of the problem is that its prevalence was equally as fleeting as a smile itself.

  • What had seemed immutable and eternal (“With the Soviet Union forever”) turned out to be a fleeting episode.

  • Those of us who live here are a fickle bunch with fleeting attention spans.

  • That fleeting comedic moment exemplifies Aidy Bryant at her best.

  • But the impression was so fleeting as to be indefinable, and soon I was busy getting everyone settled in the car.

  • True, he offered her just what I did, and with it he gave those fleeting joys that wealth brings.

  • Lady Hartledon looked back on her fleeting triumph; a triumph at the time certainly, but a short one.

  • Webber, the tall man with the tough face, watched the fleeting symbols and his face was stony.

  • But everything in this world is fleeting and transitory, and therefore it is not easy to arrive at truth.