vicissitude
英[vɪ'sɪsɪtjuːd;vaɪ-]
美[vɪ'sɪsɪtud]
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)