fleeting
英 ['fliːtɪŋ]
美 ['flitɪŋ]
- adj.
- v.素早く移動する（fleetのing形）
英語の語源
- fleeting (adj.)
- early 13c., "fickle, shifting, unstable," from Old English fleotende "floating, drifting," later "flying, moving swiftly," from present participle of fleotan "to float, drift, flow" (see fleet (v.)). Meaning "existing only briefly" is from 1560s. Related: Fleetingly.
例文
- 1. We only had a fleeting glimpse of the sun all day.
- 一日中太陽が顔を出しているのを見ただけだ。
- 2.Art is long,and time is fleeting .
- 時は流れ、学業は尽きない。
- 3.The world is like a fleeting show.
- 白駒過隙のような人の世。
- 4.She wondered for a fleeting moment if he would put his arm around her.
- 彼は自分を抱いていないだろうか。この考えは彼女の頭の中をさっと通り過ぎてしまった。
- 5.The girls caught only a fleeting glimpse of the driver.
- 女の子たちは急いで運転手をちらっと見ただけだった。
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