TERM AND TRANSLATION
duration
duréeduration
The site uses the established Bergsonian 绵延 to distinguish duration from measurable length; 时延 remains indexed for Taiwanese film scholarship and edition-specific usage.
Atlas working translation
绵延
- French term
- durée
- English term
- duration
Variants and search terms
- 持续Simplified record
- 持续时间Simplified record
- 时延Simplified record
- 内在时间Simplified record
- 綿延Traditional record
- 持續Traditional record
- 時延Traditional record
- durationCommon / non-Chinese record
Conceptual boundary
Duration is qualitative change whose moments interpenetrate and resist lossless division into homogeneous units; speed, length, and subjective feeling are separate measures.
Sources and translations
- 01Gilles Deleuze, Le Bergsonisme, PUF, 1966
Primary text for Deleuze’s reconstruction of duration, memory, the virtual, and multiplicity.
- 02《柏格森主义》,安靖译,上海人民出版社,2023
Published Mainland translation documenting current Chinese philosophical usage.
- 03Gilles Deleuze, Cinéma 2. L’image-temps, Minuit, 1985
French primary text and terminological baseline.
Read source →Open external source ↗ - 04“德勒兹词典”中文社区语料
Community index for discovering regional and historical variants.
Open external source ↗ - 05Time-Image Research Atlas terminology policy, v1
Atlas terms govern prose, aliases remain searchable, and original-language forms accompany first use.