vicissitude [vɪˈsɪsɪtu:d]

例句:

• Her girlish shyness...made the colour come and go in rapid vicissitude upon her cheek.
  来自M. O. W. Oliphant
• It is indeed a strange vicissitude of our science.
  这确实是我们科学的一个奇怪变迁.
  
• So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.
  他的生活中发生了如此巨大的变迁,他一时还无法相信是真的.
  
• Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.
  个人的特性和身世的沉浮都表明特罗依中士是一个非同寻常的人.