| 英语单词 | transient |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['trænziənt] 美 ['trænʃnt] |
| 中文释义 | adj.短暂的 n.短期居留者;<电>顺变电流 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Her feeling of depression was transient. (2) Their happiness was transient,for the war broke out soon after they got married. (3) We are just the transients at the hotel. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 她那抑郁的心情一会儿就过去了。 (2) 他们的幸福是短暂的,因为他们婚后不久就爆发了战争。 (3) 我们只是旅馆里的过往旅客。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Use the adjective transient to describe something that always changes or moves around, like how a teenager can have a temporary crush on one boy one week and another boy the next week. |
| vocabulary扩展 | 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. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]短暂的;倏忽的;无常的 Transient is used to describe a situation that lasts only a short time or is constantly changing. [FORMAL 正式]
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]临时旅客;流动短工;暂居者 Transients are people who stay in a place for only a short time and then move somewhere else. [usu pl] [FORMAL 正式]
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