It's surprising how much value can be placed on an object as ephemeral as a piece of data.

非常令人惊讶，在不过就是一段数据的临时对象上，能寄予多少价值呢？

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To be fair to Ellison, the words "cloud computing" have been hyped so often in so many different contexts it does have the ephemeral air of a passing fashion.

为埃里森说句公道话。“云计算”一词在如此多背景迥异的场合，被如此频繁地炒作，也的确像是一种昙花一现的时尚潮流。

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Jacksonian America was not a fluid, egalitarian society where individual wealth and poverty were ephemeral conditions.

杰克逊时代的美国不是一个流动的、平等的社会，个人的财富和贫穷都是短暂的。

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It makes our life fragile, ephemeral, and as a result of that, more precious.

它让我们的生命脆弱，短暂，因此而更珍贵。

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For all its ephemeral beauty, a great wine also makes for a wise investment, and now could not be a better time to venture into the wine market.

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Tweeting is an ephemeral singular act with a multiplication effect and a permanent memory.

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And devaluation-induced competitiveness would be ephemeral as inflation ravaged a restored drachma.

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