| 单词 | endless |
| 释义 | endless (endləs ) adjective B2 If you say that something is endless, you mean that it is very large or lasts for a very long time, and it seems as if it will never stop. They turned into an endless street. The war was endless. endlessly adverb [ADVERB after verb, ADVERB adjective] B2 They talk about it endlessly. ...endlessly long arcades of shops. Collocations: endless amount How can a programme produce a factual and balanced view when they're dangling an endless amount of alcohol as a temptation to these young people? The Sun There was a seemingly endless amount of text to get through, and overfamiliar, not necessarily agreeable biblical episodes to be gone into in dogged detail. Times, Sunday Times Promptly at noon, a nearly endless amount of free beans and cornbread are served to the gathered crowd. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, the creative nature of viral marketing enables an endless amount of potential forms and vehicles the messages can utilize for transmission, including mobile devices. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These series of innovations left musicians with almost an endless amount of possibilities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He has an endless capacity for the provocative or laugh-out-loud funny insight, sometimes both simultaneously. Christianity Today But in its ruthless unpicking of humanity's endless capacity for deceit, it approaches universality. Times, Sunday Times Some argued this was a superficial endeavour reflecting nothing more than our endless capacity for vanity. Times, Sunday Times Do our sporting heroes, energised by self-belief, have an endless capacity to redefine the parameters of sport, of life? Times, Sunday Times Not because it was just a close replica of his commercial film, but because it was achieved primarily through childhood hubris and an endless capacity to make do. Christianity Today The endless combinations of interior lighting. Times, Sunday Times Day or night, there are endless combinations. Times, Sunday Times Together the basic elements and their variants form a decorative vocabulary that can be assembled and rearranged in endless combinations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This mathematical combination creates a problem for crawlers, as they must sort through endless combinations of relatively minor scripted changes in order to retrieve unique content. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some want endless delay, a few are at least honest enough to admit they really want to ignore the decision of 17.4 million voters altogether. The Sun He blamed the 'endless delay' on certain agencies being 'scared of the film's subject matter'. Times, Sunday Times Procrastination and endless delay about critical issues lead to decay and doom. Times, Sunday Times Who wouldn't be: 341 fewer weekday services, thanks to an emergency timetable, and still endless delays? Times, Sunday Times I love that sense of an endless expanse of sea, so restful. Times, Sunday Times How one might show respect to an endless expanse of water, and whether it would notice, was not explained. Times, Sunday Times His innings stretched into eternity, like an endless expanse of desert with nothing but sand on the horizon. The Sun For me suddenly the future wasn't this big, endless expanse, but something potentially much shorter. Times, Sunday Times In fact, the lifelessness and the endless expanse of debris brightly lit by the late summer sun gave the city the air of a film set. Times, Sunday Times Her physicians had to guess her health from the endless flow of information that she provided about it. Times, Sunday Times Some of the leaders sought distraction from the seemingly endless flow of banalities from the podium. Times, Sunday Times Which means curating the endless flow of words and pictures around us. Times, Sunday Times The endless flow of people through your house and daily interactions at the school gate stand in contrast to the self-centred life of a singleton working from home. Times, Sunday Times This year it has been up, up and away, with an endless flow of winners. The Sun I couldn't service the endless line of people in my congregation needing my expertise. Christianity Today By moving one company in circles through a glen, he gained the appearance of an endless line of reinforcements marching to relieve him. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He soon realised that amid the endless lines of tents in the camp it would be impossible to find her during a short stay. Times, Sunday Times The 120-mile-long dunes on either side were truly massive, three or four hundred yards high, like endless lines of great white hills. Times, Sunday Times However, the explanation may be that she's so busy speaking lines endless lines of completely tedious dialogue that she has no time for anything else... Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Armed with a seemingly endless list of singles you scroll through pictures and either 'like' or 'pass' depending on how you feel about them. The Sun There are always unexpected events cropping up and a seemingly endless list of things we need to pay for. Times, Sunday Times The endless list of small yet essential tasks will clutter your brain, making it impossible to think freely or coherently as you once did. Times, Sunday Times The 500 has no fewer than 100 bespoke accessories and an almost endless list of options. The Sun The idea for the shortcut directory began with the frustration of being met with a seemingly endless list of menu options. Times, Sunday Times The press played up the fighting, creating an endless loop of anger. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We hear the weary line on an endless loop. Times,Sunday Times The four-minute song plays on an endless loop, so viewing the whole video means listening to it 360 times. Times, Sunday Times The door shuts with an air of finality that replays in an endless loop in his mind. Christianity Today I think she would have been far happier just to have been left on her settee with her cakes and biscuits watching an endless loop of soaps and gameshows. The Sun There are similar plans for cultural co-operation, harmonised defence policies and, above all, endless meetings. Times, Sunday Times To save the kitchen garden we were forced to become a campaigning organisation, marshalling paperwork, holding endless meetings, mobilising support until we reached a compromise. Times, Sunday Times The family were under the care of myriad agencies that led, suggested the coroner, to endless meetings. Times, Sunday Times There's a lot of pounding the pavements loaded down with heavy bags, plus endless meetings. The Sun Even with advisers and assistants to take care of much of the donkey work, there are still endless meetings and phone calls. Times, Sunday Times He never times his training runs but relishes the endless miles, the hours on the road, the keeping going. Times, Sunday Times The succession of anonymous hotels and endless miles stuck in a van? Times, Sunday Times There were endless miles of forest and desert, and spectacular night skies. Times, Sunday Times They no longer have to trudge endless miles across scorching sands in search of water for their families and livestock. Outlook India After endless miles in sand and wind, they arrive at the ranch. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Making even minor changes to labour laws can involve endless negotiations between government, unions and employers all fighting tooth and nail to defend their interests. Times, Sunday Times That would mean endless negotiations over policies and spending plans, with little chance of delivering the economic revolution he craves. Times,Sunday Times We enter into endless negotiations about everything from bedtime to leaving the park. Times, Sunday Times Despite endless negotiations with ministers and officials, many agreements have stalled after being mired in local political battles. Times, Sunday Times After all this success, quite a lot of correspondences with different big record-companies began, and the rest of 1999 went with endless negotiations without results. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 From layering different textures to opting for stylish knitted frocks, there are endless options for bright and bold winter warmers. The Sun Urgent as things seem, you have endless options. Times, Sunday Times To begin with, it costs a massive 89,860, even before the seemingly endless options list. Times, Sunday Times First you have to navigate the electronic answering service with its seemingly endless options for button pushing. The Sun You need to fill out endless paperwork, get a licence to trade — and there's a two-year waiting list for some spots. Times, Sunday Times The committee's attention was also drawn to the plethora of policies that require teachers to toil away at endless paperwork, taking the emphasis away from the classroom. ST The reality of 12-hour days, six days a week and endless paperwork overwhelmed the satisfaction he got in the classroom. Times, Sunday Times But they all required endless paperwork and demeaning, hours-long queues, at the end of which an exhausted, nettled social worker dealt with each person as a faceless number. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With an endless parade of dreary comic book do-gooders smarming up our screens, these not-so-super heroes live long in the memory. The Sun Now, it's just an endless parade of mild hypocrisy. Times, Sunday Times I reckon the endless parade of social inepts trotted out daily on these shows warrants a few lethal injections at the very least. Times, Sunday Times An almost endless parade of potential special occasions confronts the preacher. Christianity Today And how boring would it have been to show an endless parade of khaki outfits without interspersing them with sock-it-to-'em punches of hot pink or canary yellow. Times, Sunday Times Often, a single flower may incorporate many colours, with contrasting veining, stippling and ombré shading adding to the seemingly endless permutations. Times, Sunday Times Cricket, with its complex rules and endless permutations, makes it an ideal companion of spot-betting. Times, Sunday Times We work through the endless permutations of the payroll. Times,Sunday Times With heights ranging from back-of-border giants to diminutive varieties suited to container culture, and star, pompon, water-lily, cactus and dinner-plate-shaped blooms, there really are endless permutations. Times, Sunday Times Their leaves can be every shade of green, silver, bronze, gold, red and purple - with variegations covering endless permutations. Times, Sunday Times His life has become ceremonial: an endless procession of gilded rooms. Times, Sunday Times The small parties of the centre revive memories of the endless procession of short-lived coalition governments that characterised earlier decades. Times, Sunday Times It seems appropriate when used of the apparently endless procession of noncanonical writings commonly dubbed 'apocrypha'. Times, Sunday Times In one, an endless procession of people stream through a wood, drawn by a soundless siren; each carries an odd item, a chair, a lampshade, a picture frame. The Times Literary Supplement As revealed in this newspaper, it had allowed owners to turn homes into virtual hotels, annoying neighbours with an endless procession of suitcase-dragging strangers buzzing doors at midnight. Times, Sunday Times It ties our quest for the next big thing, this endless pursuit for bigger and better. Christianity Today But the endless pursuit of the ideal partner promises excitement and the teasing mirage of sudden personal transformation. Times, Sunday Times I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This terminology contains implications that many people see work as a seemingly endless pursuit with little reward or purpose. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We continue to make decisions, both wrong and right, on this endless quest towards domestic utopia. Times,Sunday Times The 'restaurant entertainment' could hardly be a neater metaphor for the hope, expectation, endless quest for novelty and experimentation with different ingredients that characterise so many of the festival's offerings. Times, Sunday Times Unlike most genre fantasy, the narrative dwells much on the exhaustion, discomfort, pain and fear of their presumably endless quest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their fleeces are not getting the chance to dry because of the endless rain. Times, Sunday Times Clouds weren't still, they raced across the sky, depositing almost endless rain. Times, Sunday Times F ed up with the endless rain, the biting winds and the unrelentingly bleak weather forecasts? Times, Sunday Times Fed up with the endless rain? Times, Sunday Times But rain set in, the endless rain, and through the sheet of endless cloud a jet of sudden light cracked down across that further hunk of land, which glimmered ginger. The Times Literary Supplement Writers and subs will work hard to avoid endless repetition of one word, sometimes with tortuous results. Times, Sunday Times Endless repetition and discipline, two touchstones of modern sport, weren't really his style. Times,Sunday Times I wasn't required to listen to an endless repetition of cough drops slowly being unwrapped behind my left ear. Times, Sunday Times I always wondered how that endless repetition made the band feel. Times,Sunday Times Endless repetition: doctor's rounds, medical rounds, blood tests, temperatures, pulses, bedpans, pills in a paper cup, muesli, rice pudding and ever more pots of tea. Times, Sunday Times Not for her the endless round of auditions and rejections. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Its chief executive also undertook an endless round of media interviews to explain the situation. Times, Sunday Times (2010) It involves the same endless round of chores and protocols. Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State (2006) Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Times, Sunday Times An endless sea of grey. Times, Sunday Times There are endless sea views and a fishy focus to the menu — as you'd expect. Times, Sunday Times It's a reminder that in the endless sea of bad news and awfulness, there are some genuinely nice people out there. The Sun There were 176 coaches present yesterday, and an endless sea of cars. Times, Sunday Times Their lives are often an endless search for the person who can fill it. Christianity Today You are never happier than when rummaging through the discount bins in charity shops or on that endless search for the perfect jeans. Times, Sunday Times I'm on what feels like an endless search for the perfect office chair. Times, Sunday Times It's that compelling sense of mystery, of the endless search and its undercurrent of loneliness, that sets this great filmmaker apart. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And somewhere, in the endless search of the curious mind, lies the next vision, the next key to his infinite capacity... Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A seemingly endless series of festivals supplement the natural attractions of the island, its spectacular coastline, wide stretches of sandy beach and charming countryside. Times, Sunday Times These appear on her screen as an endless series of ones and zeroes. Times, Sunday Times For a start, the budgets don't allow for an endless series of technologically improved wibbly metal bits from the future. Times, Sunday Times He insisted the new plan was not about importing an endless series of political advisers. Times, Sunday Times The book describes an endless series of plane journeys, yet it doesn't go anywhere. Times, Sunday Times I reach towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky to fall or fly. Times, Sunday Times The colors seem garish compared with the moss-edged outcroppings, the luminous pool and the willing, endless sky. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I hired a bike and discovered mountain tracks with views of emerald rivers and endless sky. Times, Sunday Times Each has two sage-green ottomans, for day-time lounging, that convert into a comfy double bed as the sun sets across the endless sky. Times, Sunday Times They like to decorate their nests with shiny objects, an endless source of fascination to them, which explains accusations of thievery. The Sun Combining functionality with the potential for flamboyance, the chair has been an endless source of inspiration for designers. Times, Sunday Times It wasn't just the wardrobe malfunctions that were an endless source of mirth and exasperation. Times, Sunday Times We don't just talk openly about them, they provide an endless source of stories. The Sun His personal life remains an endless source of fascination. Times, Sunday Times Even given the endless speculation, it would be an amazing turnaround. Times, Sunday Times Hopefully, the deficit issue will become the focus of attention rather than the endless speculation on the state of the banks. Times, Sunday Times After an exhaustive search, a string of names and endless speculation, we have got a bloke who was already there. Times, Sunday Times But he cannot stop the endless speculation which increased again after another breathtaking display. The Sun She was the source of endless speculation. The Sun But there was an endless stream of wonderful entertainment she could enjoy along with the rest of us. The Sun (2013) Then it's an almost endless stream of coffee until after lunch. The Sun (2014) Adrina smiled and nodded as Madren introduced her to an endless stream of priests and knights. TREASON KEEP (2001) The endless stream of casualties meant that the nurses were going for days on end without sleep. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain (2002) Before the great river controls of the 19th century this region was an almost endless stretch of marshlands and fens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This area provides a bird's eye view of an endless stretch of green forest land and low-lying areas. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its other magnetic charms include endless stretches of white sandy beaches and awesome snorkeling spots. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 My life was an endless string of insomnia, rashes, chest pains, and stomachaches. Christianity Today But together, at speed, as a seemingly endless string of nonsense, delivered with a smile, they break down your defences and make you roar. Times, Sunday Times Players perform an endless string of simple tasks and chores to make their little sim learn and grow. Times, Sunday Times After that tomorrow was another tomorrow, then another and another-an endless string of them, for tomorrow never comes. Christianity Today The endless string ostinatos need to go by the wayside, the big drums are probably in the bin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some there seemed to prefer endless struggle to compromise and turns in power. Times, Sunday Times From that time on the two were locked in a bitter and endless struggle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They also perceive him as the ultimate adjudicator and incarnation of punishment, officiating over an endless struggle between mythic figures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Tired out by the carrying, the endless struggles with broadband providers and the newness of everything. Times, Sunday Times After four months of seemingly endless struggles from early morning to late at night, he was finally able to complete the organ. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The mountain scenery flashed by as an endless succession of bends began to unravel. The Sun Arrive there and the senses will be stimulated by far more, by an endless succession of delights and surprises. Times, Sunday Times The sounds were created by the turbulent air swirling in an endless succession of eddies around obstacles such as buildings, trees and overhead cables. Times,Sunday Times The beaches: an endless succession of them stretches down the sunset-facing western side. Times, Sunday Times Surfing lakes would allow the generation of an endless succession of identical waves. Times, Sunday Times But even in these endless summer days there are hints of trouble to come. Times, Sunday Times Crook has reimagined him as a guardian of the natural world, battling to keep the seasons as they should be and prevent an endless summer. Times,Sunday Times We remain watchful all night, as if existing in some endless summer. Times,Sunday Times International cricketers inhabit an endless summer, chasing the sun across the world. Times, Sunday Times You should be wishing for an endless summer together instead ? Times, Sunday Times The cumulative effect here was rather like being force-fed an endless supply of overrich chocolate cake. Times, Sunday Times (2006) On the other side, there's an endless supply of vulnerable people. Times, Sunday Times (2017) My mother bought us tons of books so there was an endless supply. Times, Sunday Times (2006) There seem to be an endless supply of people asked to do this job and make the same recommendations. Times, Sunday Times (2012) And of course the whole thing runs on talk, endless talk. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The success of the sale proved that plenty of people are still splashing out the cash for motors despite endless talk of the credit crunch. The Sun There may have been endless talk of globalisation. Times, Sunday Times There will be talk, endless talk, of pressure this week. Times, Sunday Times It's the ideal place to hold a whole seven days of endless talks just about the possibility of a relationship. The Sun Or have we resigned ourselves to the endless task of uncovering the universe's secrets in vain hope that one day, together, we might archive it all-hyperlinked, cited, and disambiguated. Christianity Today He rejoined the formation, screaming his relief, and set about the endless task of the swift: flying about, chasing bugs. Times, Sunday Times The villagers inform him that he must help the widow in her endless task of digging sand. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But it would be an endless task to specify the numerous points of difference. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With so much to do, it can seem like a whirlwind of endless tasks. The Sun Surprising effects are achieved by an endless variety of plots. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Barbed wire has been made by many manufacturers in an almost endless variety of styles. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The other two card types are spells and traps, which have a nearly endless variety of functions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sometimes the harmony would barely be sketched in this textural web, but this web's flexibility, along with different combinations of instruments, guaranteed an endless variety of sounds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But it also includes an endless variety of other forms for fighting specific battles: resisting speed-up, picketing, contract negotiations, strikes, demonstrations, lobbying for pro-labor legislation, elections, and even general strikes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Once the last of us had performed, it seemed an endless wait until one of the officers came to tell us the result. The Sun No one can see every angle and learn every fact possible, so considering this question will prevent a seemingly endless wait. Christianity Today After a seemingly endless wait, with spectators drifting around the course in sunshine, wandering around the town, and visiting the golf museum, play restarted at 6pm. Times, Sunday Times Agonized accounts of surgery, multiple miscarriages, and seemingly endless waiting periods for adoptions were interspersed with humorous tales of trips to the urologist. Christianity Today No endless waiting for a break in the rain, no batting partners playing for their average, no having to find 21 other blokes and a large flat piece of grass. Times, Sunday Times Endless waiting, followed by a few hours of arguing. Houston Chronicle Agonized accounts of surgery, multiple miscarriages, and seemingly endless waiting periods for adoptions were interspersed with humorous tales of trips to the urologist. Christianity Today No endless waiting for a break in the rain, no batting partners playing for their average, no having to find 21 other blokes and a large flat piece of grass. Times, Sunday Times Answers are given in binary form, thoughts carefully structured in seemingly endless tangents that loop the conversation in knots. Times, Sunday Times (2009) We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism. Times, Sunday Times (2016) For many years he kept bees, supplying family and friends with a seemingly endless quantity of honey. Times, Sunday Times (2016) A seemingly endless toll of much-loved celebrities taken from us. The Sun (2016) From imposing standard lamps to sumptuously shaded table versions, the dramatic possibilities are virtually endless. Times, Sunday Times The solutions are virtually endless, but the findings about 'felt need'; point to one answer. Christianity Today We're talking virtually endless adaptability. Times, Sunday Times Being a virtually endless energy source, its applications are various. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 无止境的 Japanese: 終わりのない |
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