英语单词 | eternal |
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英美音标 | 英 [ɪ'tɜːnl] 美 [ɪ'tɜːrnl] |
中文释义 | adj.永久的;永恒的 n.永恒的事 |
英语例句 | (1) The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. (2) The bad man will suffer eternal damnation. (3) He is, as it were, an eternal boy. (4) She felt eternal gratitude to him for saving her life. (5) The idea that the world is eternal is now seldom advanced. (6) The eternal motion of the stars fascinated him. (7) The eternal motion of the stars fascinated him. |
中文例句 | (1) 自由的代价是永久提高警惕。 (2) 坏人将会受到永远的惩罚。 (3) 他好像是个永远年轻的小伙子。 (4) 她终生感激他的救命之恩。 (5) 地球是永恒的这种看法现在很少提出了。 (6) 星体永恒的运行使他著迷。 (7) 星体永恒的运行使他著迷。 |
vocabulary简明 | If something lasts forever or even if it just feels like it’s going to last forever, you could call it eternal, which means that it goes on and on and will never change or end. |
vocabulary扩展 | The Fountain of Youth is a mythical spring of water that rewards its bathers with eternal life, free from sickness and death forever. The Latin root of eternal is aeternalis, translating roughly as “of great age,” and eternal things are really, really old. Eternal can describe an abstract idea that never changes, like the eternal truths of war, or it can describe an annoyance that you wish would end, like the eternal boredom you feel watching a really dull movie. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]永久的;永恒的;永远的 Something that is eternal lasts for ever.
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2 [ADJ 形容词]无休止的;没完没了的 If you describe something as eternal, you mean that it seems to last for ever, often because you think it is boring or annoying.
3 [ADJ 形容词](真理、价值、问题等)永恒的,不朽的 Eternal truths, values, and questions never change and are believed to be always true and to be relevant in all situations. [ADJ n]
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