nine-day wonder

名词 n.
英 /ˌnaɪn‿deɪ ˈwʌndə/    美 /ˌnaɪn‿deɪ ˈwʌndɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned. idiomatic
    — […] I am content this vvinter to haue my doings read for a toye, that in ſommer they may be ready for traſh. It is not ſtraunge vvhen as the greateſt vvonder laſteth but nyne dayes, that a nevve vvorke ſhould not endure but three monethes.

词形变化

nine-day wonders plural nine days' wonder alternative nine day wonder alternative

词源

From nine + day + wonder (“something that causes amazement or awe”). References to a period of nine days or nights to describe the length of a short-lived fad date from as early as the 14th century; see, for instance, Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1380s) by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s – 1400; spelling modernized): “Ek [besides] wonder last but nine days never in town”.
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