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Interminable Describe Continues Latin Terminare Interminably 英 ɪn'tɜːmɪnəbl] 美

英语单词 interminable
英美音标 英 [ɪn'tɜːmɪnəbl] 美 [ɪn'tɜːrmɪnəbl]
中文释义 adj.无止尽的;冗长的
英语例句 (1) We are tired of the interminable waiting.
(2) I had interminable problems with my last car;it never worked well.
(3) He made an interminable argument.
(4) The audience was bored by the president's interminable speech.
中文例句 (1) 这种无止境的干等让我们厌倦。
(2) 我上次的那辆车子没完没了地出故障,它从未好好地行驶过。
(3) 他无休止地争论。
(4) 主席那冗长的讲话令听众们厌烦。
vocabulary简明 Use interminable to describe something that has or seems to have no end. Your math class. Your sister's violin recital. A babysitting job where five kids are going through your purse and the parents didn't leave a number.
vocabulary扩展 Something that is interminable is often boring, annoying, or hard to bear, such as an interminable noise. A near synonym is incessant, which also refers to something unpleasant that continues without stopping. It descends from the Latin prefix in- "not," terminare "to end," and the suffix -abilis "able to." Latin terminare is also the source of the English verb terminate "to end" and the corresponding noun termination "an act of ending something."
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ 形容词]无休止的;没完没了的;冗长不堪的 If you describe something as interminable, you are emphasizing that it continues for a very long time and indicating that you wish it was shorter or would stop.
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  • ...an interminable meeting.

    冗长乏味的会议

interminably
  • He talked to me interminably about his first wife.

    他没完没了地和我讲他的第一任妻子。

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