transitory

英 [ˈtrænzətri]

美 [ˈtrænzətɔːri]

adj.  暂时的; 片刻的; 转瞬即逝的

TOEFLGRETEM8法律

BNC.19572 / COCA.18961

牛津词典

adj.

• 暂时的；片刻的；转瞬即逝的
  continuing for only a short time
  1. the transitory nature of his happiness
     他的幸福昙花一现

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 短暂的;转瞬即逝的;昙花一现的
  If you say that something istransitory, you mean that it lasts only for a short time.
  1. Most teenage romances are transitory.
     绝大多数十几岁少年的恋情都转瞬即逝。
  2. …a sad reminder of the transitory nature of political success.
     不由得令人悲哀地想到政治成功昙花一现的本质

英英释义

adj

• lasting a very short time
  1. the ephemeral joys of childhood
  2. a passing fancy
  3. youth's transient beauty
  4. love is transitory but it is eternal
  5. fugacious blossoms
  Synonym:ephemeralpassingshort-livedtransientfugacious

双语例句

• The resolution of the puzzle was that spending and savings decisions depended on people's views of their long-term ( permanent) income; but they were much less inclined to adjust to transitory income variations in either direction.
  对这个谜题的解释是，支出和储蓄决策取决于人们对自己长期（永久）收入的看法；人们往往不会根据短暂的收入变化对支出和储蓄进行调整。
• Never use transitory dialogs as error messages or confirmations.
  绝不要用临时对话框作为错误信息框或确认信息框。
• This pattern processes each record in an input file and accumulates the resulting processed records in one or more "transitory" target files which will be moved to target directories on completion.
  此模式处理输入文件中的每个记录，并将所得到的经过处理的结果累积为一个或多个“临时”目标文件，此文件将在完成时移动到目标目录。
• In Spain, government ministers and officials dismissed the tensions in the bond markets as "transitory" and "speculative".
  在西班牙，政府部长和官员们将债券市场的紧张局面贬斥为“暂时”和“投机”现象。
• He advised me to utilize the remaining years of my transitory life in self uplift and social service.
  他建议我把我的短暂的有生之年奉献到自我提升和社会服务上来。
• It is to accept that the innovator's curse is to be transitory.
  创新者要受的诅咒总是要暂时被接受的。
• The laws of supply and demand suggest that this may not be a transitory phenomenon.
  供需规律意味着，这或许不是一个短暂现象。
• All this may be transitory.
  这一切也许只是暂时的？
• But forgiveness blots out bitterness from human heart like transitory ripples on water.
  但是宽恕能够从人心中清除痛苦就像水中暂时泛起的波纹。
• But the snow is a transitory problem.
  不过，大雪只是一个暂时问题。