vicissitude
英 [vɪ'sɪsɪtjuːd; vaɪ-]
美[vɪ'sɪsɪtud]
- n. 变迁；盛衰；变化无常；变迁兴衰
英英释意
- 1. a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something;
- "the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research"
- 2. mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
