vicissitude
沧桑,沧桑感,沧海桑田,动荡
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Definitions
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- : a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
- : interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
- : vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs: They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 40 years.
- : regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
- : change; mutation; mutability.
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Examples
Whoever has this knowledge can place in a wider framework the terrible vicissitudes of the present, giving sense to suffering, helping us to overcome even the most terrible tragedies.
As one wise woman, who has lived through many a cultural and social vicissitude, said of the good old days, circa 1995.
The writer of these lines confesses to an affection for Washington, which no vicissitude of life or time can alienate.
Such is the vicissitude of human affairs, that within a few years many strange mutations occur, even in places of no great extent.
Arsne Lupin was present at certain family conferences when this new vicissitude was discussed.
It is kept in good repair through every vicissitude of rule, for it is a holy place to Moslem and Jew and Christian alike.
When by vicissitude of season the seaward species are poor in volatile oil, then the scrub is rich, and vice vers.