ephemeral
adj. 短暫的,瞬息的; 朝露; 一年生; 朝生暮死
If you describe something as ephemeral, you mean that it lasts only for a very short time.
He talked about the country's ephemeral unity being shattered by the defeat...
他談到戰敗使得該國短暫的統一徹底破滅。
These paintings are in some ways a reminder that earthly pleasures are ephemeral.
這些畫在某種意義上提醒人們世俗的享樂是短暫的。
1. enduring a very short time;
It is not something ephemeral.
它不是朝生暮死的東西.
The old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed. ( William Faulkner ).
“沒有了古老而普遍的真理,任何故事都短暫並且註定要失敗的” ( 威廉·福克納 ).
His work is ephemeral.
他的作品沒有永久性.
It was not the mere ephemeral.
它並非朝生暮死.
And the steamboats, though their reign was longer, were ephemeral craft.
汽船的時代雖然比較長些, 還是一種朝不保夕的工具.