mayfly
英 美
The mayfly is to trout fly fishing, what the microchip is to the personal computer.
鳟鱼是飞的蜉蝣,什么是个人电脑晶片。
Oprah: [Reading from the poem] "I am a mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river.
欧普拉:[念诗]“我是河面上的蜉蝣生物。
His calling was the short story—a form with “the life expectancy of a mayfly”, he conceded.
他的创作重心是短篇——这种文学形式的“生命周期可比蜉蝣”,他也曾这样承认过。