[每日] evanescent (a) 逐漸消失的
Word of the Day (Thursday September 11, 2008)
evanescent \ev-uh-NES-unt\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/0c4Qs
Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; fleeting.
The Pen which gives ... permanence to the evanescent thought of a
moment.
-- Horace Smith, Tin Trumpet
Every tornado is a little different, and they are all capricious,
evanescent and hard to get a fix on.
-- "Oklahoma Tornado Offers Hints of How a Killer Storm Is Born",
New York Times, May 11, 1999
The accidentally famous ... may write books, appear on talk shows,
and, in so doing, attract even greater public attention. This type
of celebrity status, of course, is brittle and evanescent.
-- Lawrence M. Friedman, The Horizontal Society
Evanescent is from Latin evanescere, "to vanish," from e-, "from,
out of" + vanescere, "to disappear," from vanus, "empty."
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