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  • Derivatives : noun  fleetingness ; adverb  fleetingly
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

fleeting ['fliːtɪŋ]
  1. 1. adjective [+glimpse] [ visit] [ happiness] 短暂

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary (1 result)

fleeting
  1. 1. adjective 短暂的转瞬即逝的

Macmillan Dictionary - Simpler Definitions (1 result)

fleeting [ˈflitɪŋ]
  1. 1. adjective continuing for only a very short time

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My ideal home, he wrote: no trees, no sky with fleeting clouds.
他写道,他理想的家园没有树,天空没有浮云。
An insect was fleeting over the surface of the pond.
一只昆虫掠过池塘水面。
How gloriously happy she had been during those few fleeting moments of time.
在那些飞逝的短暂时光里,她是多么幸福啊。
My wife and I raced out of Philadelphia as if fleeting a pestilence, only to run into dense shore-bound traffic. [Source: Web Examples ]
我和妻子像逃避瘟疫一样风驰电掣般驶出费城,结果却陷入前往海滨的稠密拥挤的车流之中。
红尘攘攘,一切都犹如过眼云烟。
All the hustle and bustle in the world is as transient as fleeting clouds.
由于有公事在身,他只能走马观花似地看看三亚的风景。
Having business at hand, he only had a fleeting glance of Sanya's scenery.
浮光掠影看厦门
make a fleeting visit to Xiamen
商人要善于抓住稍纵即逝的市场机遇。
Business people must be good at taking advantage of every fleeting window of opportunity.

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