ephemera
ephemera 英 [ɪˈfemərə] 美 [ɪˈfɛmərə]
n. 蜉蝣
名词复数:ephemeras
- Ephemera don't stick around for very long. You might enjoy such ephemera as sunsets and rainbows, things appearing only briefly, and so enjoyed all the more.
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- n. 蜉蝣
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1. Sometimes he glanced over the magazines and newspapers to see how "ephemera" was being maltreated.
他有时也读报纸和杂志，想看看《蜉蝣》遭到了什么样的虐待。
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2. Ministers began to preach sermons against "ephemera," and one, who too stoutly stood for much of its content, was expelled for heresy.
牧师们开始布道，反对《蜉蝣》，有一个牧师因为坚决维护那诗的内容，竟被以异端罪逐出了教会。
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3. Then the tribute the mob paid him was a sorry tribute indeed, for that same mob had wallowed "ephemera" into the mire.
那么那群氓对他的礼赞也就只能令人遗憾了，因为把布里森登的《蜉蝣》拱到了烂泥里的也是那同样的群氓。
- ephemera (n.) late 14c., originally a medical term, from Medieval Latin ephemera (febris) "(fever) lasting a day," from fem. of ephemerus, from Greek ephemeros "daily, for the day," also "lasting or living only one day, short-lived," from epi "on" (see epi-) + hemerai, dative of hemera "day," from PIE *amer- "day." Sense extended 17c. to short-lived insects (Modern Latin ephemera musca) and flowers; general sense of "thing of transitory existence" is first attested 1751. Compare Greek ephemeroi "men," literally "creatures of a day."
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