请教“侯鸟”用英文怎么说？

transient

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adj.

短暂的, 瞬时的

n.

瞬时现象

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.（形容词）

Passing with time; transitory:

短暂的：随时间消逝的；短暂的：

“the transient beauty of youth”(Lydia M. Child)

“短暂的青春年华”(吕底亚M.蔡尔德)

Remaining in a place only a brief time:

短期的，临时的：在一个地方停留很短一段时间的：

transient laborers.

临时工

Physics Decaying with time, especially as a simple exponential function of time.

物理学 瞬变的：随时间延续而衰减的，尤指作为时间的一个简单的指数函数

n.（名词）

One that is transient, especially a hotel guest or boarder who stays for only a brief time.

临时旅客：过路人，尤指只呆很短一段时间的旅馆住宿者

Physics A transient phenomenon or property, especially a transient electric current.

物理学 瞬变现象：一种瞬间变化的现象或性质，尤指瞬变的电流

Alteration of Latin tr?ns} tr?nseunt- [present participle of] tr?ns?re [to go over]

拉丁语 tr?ns的变化} tr?nseunt- [] tr?ns?re的现在分词 [越过]

tr?s [over] * see ter…- 2

tr?s [从一边到另一边] *参见 ter…- 2?e [to go] * see ei- ?e [走] *参见 ei-

tran“siently

adv.（副词）

transient， transitory， ephemeral， fleeting， fugitive， momentary， evanescent

These adjectives mean lasting, existing, or staying for a short time.

这些形容词都有持续，存在或停留很短一段时间的意思。

Transient usually refers to what remains only briefly:

Transient 通常指只停留很短一段时间的事物；

We stayed at the inn as transient guests.

我们在小酒馆中只作短暂停留。

“The moods were many and transient” (W.H. Hudson).

“心绪纷繁但往往如过往烟云” (W·H·赫德森）。

Transitory more often means inherently short-lived or impermanent:

Transitory 更多地指生来短命或不长久：

“This false world is but transitory” (William Dunbar).

“这个虚幻的世界只是昙花一现” （威廉·邓巴）。

“Action is transitory—a step, a blow,/The motion of a muscle, this way or that—/'Tis done” (William Wordsworth).

“行动是短暂的－一个脚步，一击/肌肉的运动，这样或那样/这就完结了” （威廉·华兹华斯）。

Ephemeral, which in its original sense means living or lasting only for a day, implies conspicuously brief existence or duration:

Ephemeral 原来的意思是指只存活或延续一天的，暗指生存或延续时间非常短的意思：

“the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed” (William Faulkner).

“没有了古老而普遍的真理，任何故事都短暂并且注定要失败的” （威廉·福克纳）。

Fleeting is applied to what slips away swiftly, often more swiftly than one would wish:

Fleeting 用于形容迅速溜走的事物，经常它们消逝得比我们希望得要快：

“Art is long, and Time is fleeting” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

“艺术无尽，而人生有涯” （亨利·沃兹华斯·朗费罗）。

Fugitive especially describes what is elusive or quickly fades:

Fugitive 专门用来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).

“我不能赞扬一种易变的美德，它没有经受过考验、没有抛头露面，从来就没有挺身而出并勇敢地面对敌人” （约翰·弥尔顿）。

Momentary implies the brevity of or as if of a single moment:

Momentary 指一瞬或象一瞬那样短暂的；

I had some momentary misgivings that were quickly resolved.

我曾有过短暂的疑虑，但很快都烟消云散了。

Evanescent suggests that something disappears like vapor:

Evanescent 意指象蒸气一样消失的事物：

“The incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind” (Samuel Johnson).

“给传记增添光彩的是那些转瞬即逝的事件” （萨缪尔·约翰逊）

transient

来自拉丁语transire“过渡的”现在分词 (transiens)