vicissitude
noun /vɪˈsɪsɪtjuːd/
/vɪˈsɪsɪtuːd/
[usually plural] (formal)- one of the many changes and problems in a situation or in your life, that you have to deal with
变迁;人生的沉浮;兴衰枯荣 - the vicissitudes of family life
家庭生活的变迁
词源early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘alternation’): from French, or from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim ‘by turns’, from vic- ‘turn, change’. - the vicissitudes of family life