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fleetingly

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

瞬息万变,转瞬即逝,稍纵即逝,飘忽不定

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

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Examples

  • Still, it’s hard to deny that Reebok has been flailing for too long, fleeting improvements in 2019 aside.

  • She hopes she’ll never have to steal again, though she says her sense of security is fleeting.

  • So now, in the fleeting space between comfortable and crazy, he is in this happy place, alone on his coming-of-age court with Veljko Perovic, his personal coach since he was 12, signing out by sinking buckets.

  • It can be as fleeting as the first bite of a crisp apple or more substantial, such as the feeling of awe at a valley awash in golden foliage.

  • Maybe she had the look of someone who was trying to work something out, something at once vast and fleeting, which could never be approached head-on but only anecdotally.

  • For the overwhelming majority of people in this country, the likelihood of contracting it is fleetingly small.

  • These are worlds and characters unto their own—strange and sexually charged mysteries caught fleetingly on camera.

  • UZBEKY-BEKY-BEKY-BEKY-STAN In 2011 Herman Cain was fleetingly the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.

  • Mike saw the figure—dimly, fleetingly, obscured most of the time by the driving whiteness.

  • A darker, livid hue passed fleetingly over the pallid body of the octopus.

  • The Beaker trader Rossa rubbed sweating palms on his kilt and thought fleetingly of forest ghosts and other mysteries.

  • His mouth, I thought fleetingly, must hurt like hell when he drew it up into the kind of grin he was grinning now.

  • It had never before in her life, not even fleetingly, not once, occurred to her that she might ever have children.