fleeting

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An automatic operation mode of an absolute signal that reserves a route for several trains following one another, without the need for dispatcher to re-set the route for each train. US,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of fleet form-of,gerund,participle,present
形容词 adj.
  1. Passing quickly; of short duration.
    — Architecture, sculpture, painting are static arts. Even in literature "our flying minds," as George Meredith says, cannot contain protracted description. It is so; for from sequences of words they must assemble all the details in one simultaneous impression. But moments of fleeting beauty too transient to be caught by any means less swift than light itself are registered on the screen.
  2. That which flees, especially quickly; fugitive.

词形变化

more fleeting comparative most fleeting superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
fleetingly fleetingness fleeting note unfleeting

词源

词源 1
From Middle English fleten (“to float”), from Old English flēotan (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. By surface analysis, fleet + -ing.
词源 2
From Middle English fleten (“to float”), from Old English flēotan (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. By surface analysis, fleet + -ing.
词源 3
From Middle English fleten (“to float”), from Old English flēotan (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. By surface analysis, fleet + -ing.
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