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perennial adj.永久的；反复出现的；多年生的n.多年生植物 (1) 政治是一种长期争论不休的话题。(2) 长期困扰我们的问题就是缺钱。(3) 加莱克斯草是一种多年生常绿植物。 Arguing with your roommate about who cleaned the bathroom last time might be a perennial argument. There is also a perennial plant, which lasts more than two years and usually reappears each spring, because it produces flowers and seeds from the same root structure. Perennial comes from the Latin perennis, from the prefix per-, "through," plus annus, or "year." Annus is also the source of our English word annual — an annual plant lives only one year or season.

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英 [pə'reniəl] 美 [pə'reniəl] (1) Politics provides a perennial subject for argument.(2) Our perennial problem is not having enough money.(3) A galaxy is an evergreen perennial. Perennial typically describes things that are permanent, constant, or repeated. If you fight with your parents every year over whether they really must invite your annoying cousins for Thanksgiving, you could call that a perennial conflict. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]（尤指问题或困难）永恒的，持续的，亘古不变的 You use perennial to describe situations or states that keep occurring or which seem to exist all the time； used especially to describe problems or difficulties.   [usu ADJ n]...the perennial urban problems of drugs and homelessness...毒品和无家可归这两个一直困扰城市的问题There's a perennial shortage of teachers with science qualifications.有理科教学资格的老师一直都很短缺。perenniallyBoth services are perennially short of staff.两个机构一直都是人手不够。2[ADJ 形容词]（植物）多年生的 A perennial plant lives for several years and has flowers each year.   [usu ADJ n]...a perennial herb with greenish-yellow flowers.开绿黄色花的多年生香草Perennial is also a noun....a low-growing perennial.多年生矮小植物

英语单词	perennial
英美音标	英 [pə'reniəl] 美 [pə'reniəl]
中文释义	adj.永久的；反复出现的；多年生的 n.多年生植物
英语例句	(1) Politics provides a perennial subject for argument. (2) Our perennial problem is not having enough money. (3) A galaxy is an evergreen perennial.
中文例句	(1) 政治是一种长期争论不休的话题。 (2) 长期困扰我们的问题就是缺钱。 (3) 加莱克斯草是一种多年生常绿植物。
vocabulary简明	Perennial typically describes things that are permanent, constant, or repeated. If you fight with your parents every year over whether they really must invite your annoying cousins for Thanksgiving, you could call that a perennial conflict.
vocabulary扩展	Arguing with your roommate about who cleaned the bathroom last time might be a perennial argument. There is also a perennial plant, which lasts more than two years and usually reappears each spring, because it produces flowers and seeds from the same root structure. Perennial comes from the Latin perennis, from the prefix per-, "through," plus annus, or "year." Annus is also the source of our English word annual — an annual plant lives only one year or season.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]（尤指问题或困难）永恒的，持续的，亘古不变的 You use perennial to describe situations or states that keep occurring or which seem to exist all the time； used especially to describe problems or difficulties. [usu ADJ n] ...the perennial urban problems of drugs and homelessness... 毒品和无家可归这两个一直困扰城市的问题 There's a perennial shortage of teachers with science qualifications. 有理科教学资格的老师一直都很短缺。 perennially Both services are perennially short of staff. 两个机构一直都是人手不够。 2 [ADJ 形容词]（植物）多年生的 A perennial plant lives for several years and has flowers each year. [usu ADJ n] ...a perennial herb with greenish-yellow flowers. 开绿黄色花的多年生香草 Perennial is also a noun. ...a low-growing perennial. 多年生矮小植物

Perennial Argument Year Flowers Annus Annual Plant Lives