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adjective
marked by or filled with vicissitudes
Latin vicissitudin-, vicissitudo
The first known use of vicissitudinous was circa 1846
1 The pictures' narratives become vicissitudinous and distant, while the figures therein seem floating and drifting in the ocean of time, dispossessed of temporal order or even physical direction.
画面中所表达的叙事情节变得沧桑和悠远,画面中的人物好像在时光的大海中漂流、浮动,不再具备时间的先后次序,甚至分不清东南西北的方向。
2 So when one investigates the style of legal English, he is to take the vicissitudinous history of Great Britain into account.
所以,当我们要考察法律英语的风格时,我们必须把大不列颠岛曲折的历史考虑进去。