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Transient Moves Boy Word Quickly Trænʃnt Adj.智暂的 Mood

Front transient
Pron ['trænʃnt]
Back 【transient】
adj.智暂的
My mood is only transient;it will go away pretty soon.
我的情绪只是一时的,很快就会过去的。
Vocab
transientlasting a very short time

Use the adjective transient to describe something that always changes or moves around, like how a teenage girl can have a temporary crush on one boy one week and another boy the next week.

Transient is most often used to modify nouns like nature, threat, source and cause, which suggests that the word often shows up in formal contexts, such as analysis of finance or global terrorism. But it can also be used for anything that moves quickly from one thing to another, like a transient feeling or facial expression. Transient is also a noun meaning "a person who moves from place to place; a homeless person." The word comes from Latin transire, "to pass over," so you can think of it as describing things that are quickly passed over.

All forms of 'transient' will appear on average once every 1375 pages.
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