昙花一现

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

但仅仅依靠武力获得的胜利终归只是昙花一现。

With her prickly body and plain looks, the ball cactus tends to be neglected to a corner, where the plant will stay in obscurity to build up strength until it is able to make a short-lived yet brilliant appearance, offering its splendour in a soul stirring way, a beautiful way of offering.

她浑身带刺，貌不惊人，往往不被人看重，置于角落，却默默无闻，养精蓄锐，一旦成熟，也会&昙花一现&，给予惊心动魄的刹那芳华，那已是灿烂辉煌、荡气回肠的美丽奉献。

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue.

对我们而言，荣誉令人肃然起敬，因为它不是昙花一现的东西，而一直是古老的美德。

Nor is it by pleasant images only that such plausible connections are made: the whole divine comedy of life, including its somber aspects, its sudden balkings, impish accidents, anxious expectations, moves past him, not quite like a shadow play--for it is he himself, after all, who lives and suffers through these scenes--yet never without giving a fleeting sense of illusion; and I imagine that many persons have reassured themselves amidst the perils of dream by calling out, It is a dream!

这不仅是他亲自体验到了然于心的，愉快亲切的画景而已，而且一切严肃的，悲哀的，愁闷的，忧郁的情绪，突然的障碍，命运的揶揄，不安的期待，总之，人生的整部&神曲&及其&地狱篇&，都掠过他眼前，不是仅仅象镜花水月，因为他就在这些情景中生活着，苦恼着，然而仍不免有昙花一现的假象之感。

Some day I will tell you about our farewells and all that we said to each other as we parted.

我和他的关系虽如昙花一现，但这却是我这个遭受过许多折磨的不幸的心灵尝到的极为甜蜜的欢乐之一。

E. g A film star who would not improve himself by continually accepting challenging roles is likely to be a flash in the pan.

一位电影明星如果不是不断地接受具有挑战性的角色来提高自己的演艺，就有可能只是昙花一现。

Although Alexander's empire proved shortlived, the succession states survived more or less intact for three centuries, during which time the Middle East became Hellenized.

虽然亚历山大大帝国只是昙花一现，但继之而起的诸王国却差不多完整地存在了三个世纪。

The young beautiful girls thronged through the city like lemmings, lasting one year, some two.

年轻漂亮的姑娘遍地都是，个个昙花一现，新鲜也是一年，有的可以新鲜两年。

Other technologies havecome and gone like mayflies.

其他计算机技术往往如昙花一现。

Compared with other theological genres which have produced great influence in history, the American radical secularized theology of the 60's is just like the night-blooming cereus, but as the short life of the night-blooming cereus does not affect its glory, the radical secularized theology produced quite great influence on not only the theology but also every aspect of the society.

与历史上那些产生了巨大影响的神学流派相比，六十年代美国的激进世俗神学或&上帝之死&派神学运动可以说是昙花一现，但就像昙花的寿命短暂不影响其灿烂一样，激进世俗神学无论是在神学还是社会的方方面面之中都产生了较大的影响。

On the other hand, the more important thing is because the urban housing is a kind of heterogeneity products.

另一方面，更重要的是由于城市住房是一种异质性产品。

Climate histogram is the fall that collects place measure calm value, cent serves as cross axle for a few equal interval, the area that the frequency that the value appears according to place is accumulated and becomes will be determined inside each interval, discharge the graph that rise with post, also be called histogram.

气候直方图是将所收集的降水量测定值，分为几个相等的区间作为横轴，并将各区间内所测定值依所出现的次数累积而成的面积，用柱子排起来的图形，也叫做柱状图。