[5trAnziEnt]
adj.
短暫的, 瞬時的
n.
瞬時現象
transient
tran.sient
AHD:[tr?n“sh…nt, -zh…nt, -z?-…nt]
D.J.[6tr#n.*nt, -9*nt, -zi8*nt]
K.K.[6tr#n.*nt, -9*nt, -zi*nt]
adj.（形容詞）
Passing with time; transitory:
短暫的：隨時間消逝的；短暫的：
“the transient beauty of youth”(Lydia M. Child)
“短暫的青春年華”(呂底亞M.蔡爾德)
Remaining in a place only a brief time:
短期的，臨時的：在壹個地方停留很短壹段時間的：
transient laborers.
臨時工
Physics Decaying with time, especially as a simple exponential function of time.
物理學 瞬變的：隨時間延續而衰減的，尤指作為時間的壹個簡單的指數函數
n.（名詞）
One that is transient, especially a hotel guest or boarder who stays for only a brief time.
臨時旅客：過路人，尤指只呆很短壹段時間的旅館住宿者
Physics A transient phenomenon or property, especially a transient electric current.
物理學 瞬變現象：壹種瞬間變化的現象或性質，尤指瞬變的電流
Alteration of Latin tr?ns} tr?nseunt- [present participle of] tr?ns?re [to go over]
拉丁語 tr?ns的變化} tr?nseunt- [] tr?ns?re的現在分詞 [越過]
tr?s [over] * see ter…- 2
tr?s [從壹邊到另壹邊] *參見 ter…- 2?e [to go] * see ei- ?e [走] *參見 ei-
tran“siently
adv.（副詞）
transient， transitory， ephemeral， fleeting， fugitive， momentary， evanescent
These adjectives mean lasting, existing, or staying for a short time.
這些形容詞都有持續，存在或停留很短壹段時間的意思。
Transient usually refers to what remains only briefly:
Transient 通常指只停留很短壹段時間的事物；
We stayed at the inn as transient guests.
我們在小酒館中只作短暫停留。
“The moods were many and transient” (W.H. Hudson).
“心緒紛繁但往往如過往煙雲” (W·H·赫德森）。
Transitory more often means inherently short-lived or impermanent:
Transitory 更多地指生來短命或不長久：
“This false world is but transitory” (William Dunbar).
“這個虛幻的世界只是曇花壹現” （威廉·鄧巴）。
“Action is transitory—a step, a blow,/The motion of a muscle, this way or that—/'Tis done” (William Wordsworth).
“行動是短暫的－壹個腳步，壹擊/肌肉的運動，這樣或那樣/這就完結了” （威廉·華茲華斯）。
Ephemeral, which in its original sense means living or lasting only for a day, implies conspicuously brief existence or duration:
Ephemeral 原來的意思是指只存活或延續壹天的，暗指生存或延續時間非常短的意思：
“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）。
Fleeting is applied to what slips away swiftly, often more swiftly than one would wish:
Fleeting 用於形容迅速溜走的事物，經常它們消逝得比我們希望得要快：
“Art is long, and Time is fleeting” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
“藝術無盡，而人生有涯” （亨利·沃茲華斯·朗費羅）。
Fugitive especially describes what is elusive or quickly fades:
Fugitive 專門用來形容躲避的或很快消失的事物：
“I cannot praise a fugitive . . . virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary” (John Milton).
“我不能贊揚壹種易變的美德，它沒有經受過考驗、沒有拋頭露面，從來就沒有挺身而出並勇敢地面對敵人” （約翰·彌爾頓）。
Momentary implies the brevity of or as if of a single moment:
Momentary 指壹瞬或象壹瞬那樣短暫的；
I had some momentary misgivings that were quickly resolved.
我曾有過短暫的疑慮，但很快都煙消雲散了。
Evanescent suggests that something disappears like vapor:
Evanescent 意指象蒸氣壹樣消失的事物：
“The incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind” (Samuel Johnson).
“給傳記增添光彩的是那些轉瞬即逝的事件” （薩繆爾·約翰遜）
transient
來自拉丁語transire“過渡的”現在分詞 (transiens)