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Perpetual Describe Things Supposed Pər'petʃuəl Bathing Fountain Youth

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Pron [pər'petʃuəl]
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Bathing in the fountain of Youth is supposed to assure perpetual beauty.
沐浴于青春之泉被认为可以保持永久的美丽。
【重点词汇】
perpetual adj. 永久的 反: temporary
be supposed to: 应该, 被期望
Vocab
perpetualcontinuing forever or indefinitely

Use the adjective perpetual to describe something that never ends or changes. If you're a perpetual procrastinator, your dilly-dallying ways are never going to improve.

It may be true that the only constant is change, but English nevertheless has no shortage of words to describe things that never change: everlasting, eternal, and permanent, for example — and this word, perpetual, from the Latin perpetuus, "continuous." In casual usage, though, you might hear someone say "This perpetual bad weather needs to clear." Maybe it should come as no surprise to find people using the word to describe things that are not truly everlasting — since so few things really are.

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