fleeting的意思|fleeting的解释-里氏词典

fleeting ['flitɪŋ]

a. 疾驰的, 短暂的, 飞逝的

A faint or fleeting indication; a trace.
模糊的暗示模糊的或一闪即逝的暗示；迹象
The author has managed to trace many incidents in which the long arm of confidence brought the heroine in fleeting touch with the members of the family.
作者设法追溯了许多事件，在这些事件中，由于离奇的机遇，使女主角与这一家庭有了短时间的接触。
fleeting"a.
飞逝的, 短暂的 "

fleeting

[ adj ]
lasting for a markedly brief time
<adj.all>
a fleeting glancefugitive hours
rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass
a momentary glimpse

Fleeting \Fleet"ing\, a.
Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as,
the fleeting hours or moments.

Syn: Evanescent; ephemeral. See {Transient}.

fleet \fleet\ (fl[=e]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {fleeted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {fleeting}.] [OE. fleten, fleoten, to swim, AS.
fle['o]tan to swim, float; akin to D. vlieten to flow, OS.
fliotan, OHG. fliozzan, G. fliessen, Icel. flj[=o]ta to
float, flow, Sw. flyta, D. flyde, L. pluere to rain, Gr.
plei^n to sail, swim, float, Skr. plu to swim, sail.
[root]84. Cf. {Fleet}, n. & a., {Float}, {Pluvial}, {Flow}.]
1. To sail; to float. [Obs.]

And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet.
--Spenser.

2. To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit
as a light substance.

All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . .
Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. --Milton.

3. (Naut.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan
or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.

4. (Naut.) To move or change in position; -- said of persons;
as, the crew fleeted aft.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Donovan's life work is art usually seen at a great distance in a fleeting glance from a car window.
These scenes, the FCC said, "were neither isolated nor fleeting." The commission said nudity and sexual themes are not necessarily "indecent," but their context and treatment in "Private Lessons" were.
Michael O'Brien, a history professor at University of Wisconsin Fox Valley Center in Menasha and author of a book on McCarthyism, dismissed renewed interest in McCarthy and the Birch Society as fleeting.
Getting the word to employees is equally important and speed is the watchword because the urge to volunteer can be fleeting.
In this strategy, traders buy futures and sell the underlying stocks to lock in fleeting price differences.
But the days of wine and roses could be fleeting.
One cited what he described as relatively fleeting coverage of Iraq's alleged use of chemical weapons on Iranian-occupied Kurdish villages in which Iran claimed 5,000 people were killed.
Salomon and Morgan are among the most significant users of the technique, which uses high-volume computers to sell stocks in New York and buy equivalent stock-index futures in Chicago, or vice versa, to profit from fleeting price disparities.
The free-market value of the zloty shot up against the dollar, a fleeting nod to the government Solidarity finally formed, three months after it trounced the Communists in Poland's national election.
Call it peace, however fleeting.
The performance is brisk and muscular, but not so much that Schubert's fleeting changes of color and mood are sacrificed.
There is no Kent, and Cordelia makes only the most fleeting of appearances, so that almost everyone on the stage is either mad or bad.
In recent times he has appeared in such fleeting films as "Silence of the North," "Space Camp" and "Maid to Order."
In it, traders buy or sell stocks and offset those positions in stock-index futures contracts to profit from fleeting price discrepancies.
EC officials call the economic effects of the Gulf crisis mild and fleeting, and cross their fingers that the economic downturn in Europe has been the same.
But this veteran of the competitive, crowded world of magazines knows success can be fleeting. "I'm anxiety-ridden," she says.
After 26 years of the Burmese Way to Socialism, six months of increasing public protest, and the forced resignation Friday of the Socialist Party's fleeting new chairman, Sein Lwin, this is Burma's great moment.
"Obviously I am deeply disappointed that the commitment to Southpoint proved to be so fleeting," said John Huey, editor of Southpoint.
The ads showed only fleeting glimpses of Nissan's vehicles, but assured viewers that they were "built for the human race."
But Miller reckons that the fascination with the land down under could be fleeting.
Photographer Toshiaki Nakayama, one of two palace-authorized photographers present, snapped a picture of the fleeting gesture before taking the official portrait.
And in the fleeting glimpses that cameramen and reporters get of the leaders, Mrs. Thatcher rivals Reagan as a favorite target for cameramen.
Amid the generally upbeat signals being put out by the president's physicians, though, there was one more somber note that suggested Mr. Bush's problem may not have been the fleeting one it appeared at first.
With this, Washington missed its fleeting chance to make a difference in Lebanon.
But given the huge flows of capital in the international markets, such actions have only fleeting impact.
But the report by the Senate Appropriations Committee said optimism about reform in Zaire was fleeting and has been followed by delays and brutal attacks by Mobutu's security forces against pro-democracy youths.
Mr. Peroni said the modest increase in volume that accompanied the market's advance suggests that its strength won't prove to be fleeting.
Ashton-Tate's decline shows how fleeting success can be for high-tech firms, especially in software, if senior management doesn't include people with the expertise to keep up with innovation in the field.
For a few fleeting weeks, free enterprise thrived in Brooklyn.
"We don't want to telegraph our punches, but we want people to know this isn't a fleeting fad," said Jack Devault, head of Life Support Services and one of the coordinators of Saturday's demonstration.

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