transient

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1 SHORT TIMEcontinuing only for a short time 短暂的，转瞬即逝的，一时的

transient fashions

短暂的时尚

2 SHORT TIMEworking or staying somewhere for only a short time 逗留时间很短的；流动性的

a transient population

流动人口

—transience noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

transient• With further respiratory tract infections there remains a tendency to impaired hearing, but this is transient.• They list possible side effects as mild to moderate and transient.• Elevations of serum transaminase are usually transient and dose-related, but occasionally can indicate severe hepatotoxicity.• The grandchild's more numerous social connections are shallower, more transient and imbued with less moral content than the grandfather's.• The cause is not transient but structural and deep-seated.• The transient nature of speech does not permit editing of the speech signal.• transient pleasures• Phoenix has a very transient population.• The essentially transient regime left behind little but resentment and destruction.• Once the transient sleep problem has passed, stop taking the sleeping pills.

transient2 noun [countableC]

American EnglishAmEHOME someone who has no home and moves around from place to place 流浪者；游民

Examples from the Corpus

transient• He had been living as a transient in San Diego for several years before his arrest.• Farther along the street was a transient who was carrying his belongings in a plastic bag.• Empty houses attract drug users and transients.• The king decreed that anyone who attempted to feed or house the eighty-six-year-old transient would be punished for their efforts.• On Wednesday, Brown apologized for his outbursts and vowed to get tough on park transients.• In such petty ways some revenge was taken on the wealthy transient.

From Longman Business Dictionary

transienttran·si·ent /ˈtrænziəntˈtrænʃənt/ adjectiveadj formal

only lasting for a short period of time

Customer loyalty in the health drinks market appears transient at the best of times.

Origin transient1

(1500-1600) Latin present participle of transire “to go across”, from ire “to go”

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