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Perpetual Ly Describe Things Ends Adj 形容词   [Usu

英语单词 perpetual
英美音标 [pə'petjuəl]
中文释义 adj.永久的
vocab简明 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.
vocab扩展 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.
真题原句 But it’s not as if earlier times didn’t know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents.
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[ADJ 形容词]不间断的;不变的;持续的;长久的 A perpetual feeling, state, or quality is one that never ends or changes.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • ...the creation of a perpetual union.

    永久联盟的创立

perpetually
  • They were all perpetually starving...

    他们都一直忍饥挨饿。

  • He and his wife would be compelled to live perpetually as second-class citizens.

    他和妻子将被迫永远做二等公民。

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[ADJ 形容词]连续不断的;无尽无休的;没完没了的 A perpetual act, situation, or state is one that happens again and again and so seems never to end.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • I thought her perpetual complaints were going to prove too much for me.

    我想我再也受不了她无休无止的抱怨了。 per|pet|ual|ly

  • ...a perpetually renewed miracle...

    不断再现的奇迹

  • He perpetually interferes in political affairs.

    他总是干预政事。

来源 2006.4

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