vicissitude

英 [v?'s?s?tju?d; va?-] 美[v?'s?s?tud]
  • n. 變遷；盛衰；變化無(wú)常；變遷興衰

英英釋意

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)