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vicissitude

/vi-sis-i-tood, -tyood/US // vɪˈsɪs ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud //UK // (vɪˈsɪsɪˌtjuːd) //

沧桑,沧桑感,沧海桑田,动荡

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
    • : interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
    • : vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs: They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 40 years.
    • : regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
    • : change; mutation; mutability.

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Examples

  • Whoever has this knowledge can place in a wider framework the terrible vicissitudes of the present, giving sense to suffering, helping us to overcome even the most terrible tragedies.

  • As one wise woman, who has lived through many a cultural and social vicissitude, said of the good old days, circa 1995.

  • The writer of these lines confesses to an affection for Washington, which no vicissitude of life or time can alienate.

  • Such is the vicissitude of human affairs, that within a few years many strange mutations occur, even in places of no great extent.

  • Arsne Lupin was present at certain family conferences when this new vicissitude was discussed.

  • It is kept in good repair through every vicissitude of rule, for it is a holy place to Moslem and Jew and Christian alike.

  • When by vicissitude of season the seaward species are poor in volatile oil, then the scrub is rich, and vice vers.

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