| 单词 | eternal city |
| 释义 | > as lemmasEternal City a. rhetorically. Said of things to which endless continuance is ascribed hyperbolically or in relative sense. Eternal City (Latin urbs æterna): a designation of Rome, occurring in Ovid and Tibullus, and frequent in the official documents of the Empire. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring longeOE longsomeeOE long of lifeOE lastinga1225 cleaving1340 continualc1340 dwellingc1380 long-livinga1382 everlastingc1384 long-duringa1387 long-lasting?a1400 long-liveda1400 broadc1400 permanable?c1422 perseverant?a1425 permanentc1425 perdurable?a1439 continuedc1440 abiding1448 unremoved1455 eternalc1460 long-continued1464 continuing1526 long-enduring1527 enduring1532 immortal1538 diuturn?1541 veterated1547 resiant?1567 stayinga1568 well-wearinga1568 substantive1575 pertinacious1578 extant1581 ceaseless1590 marble1596 of length1597 longeval1598 diuturnal1599 nine-lived1600 chronic1601 unexhausted1602 chronical1604 endurable1607 continuant1610 indeflourishing1610 aged1611 indurant1611 continuatea1616 perennious1628 seculara1631 undiscontinueda1631 continuated1632 untransitory1632 long-spun1633 momently1641 stative1643 outliving1645 constant1653 long-descended1660 voluminousa1661 perduring1664 perdurant1671 livelong1673 perennial1676 longeve1678 consequential1681 unquenched1703 lifelong1746 momentary1755 inveterate1780 stabile1797 persistent1826 unpassing1831 all-time1846 year-long1846 teak-built1847 lengthful1855 long-term1867 long haul1873 sticky1879 week-to-week1879 perenduring1883 long-range1885 longish1889 long-time1902 long run1904 long-life1915 c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1714) 84 Their Renowne wol be eternal. 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. ajv An eternal testimonie of absolute glory. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxii. ix. 202 A certain region or quarter of that eternall citie [L. urbis aeternae] Rome. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 47 To..climb the frozen Alps, and tread th' eternal Snow. 1789 ‘P. Pindar’ Subj. for Painters 60 O nymph, th' eternal tear shall flow; The sigh unceasing breathe of thee. 1792 E. Burke Consideration Present State Affairs in Wks. (1826) VII. 106 These accounts..tend to make an eternal rupture between the powers. 1793 Acct. Trial T. Muir for Sedition 33 The Lord Advocate..declared that his imprisonment would be eternal. 1823 C. Lamb Valentine's Day in Elia 129 Delightful eternal common-places, which ‘having been will always be’. 1844 tr. M. T. Asmar Mem. Babylonian Princess II. 301 Hours..passed in the bosom of the eternal mountains. 1849 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (new ed.) IX. lvii. 5 Stupendous mountains, whose summits..wrapped in eternal snow, almost overhang the lake. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxvii. 288 Michael Angelo..designed the Eternal City. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 390 At no moment..has the Parliament..ever given up its eternal right to regulate the royal succession at its will. 1887 R. L. Stevenson Underwoods i. xxxv. 69 Eternal granite hewn from the living isle. < as lemmas |
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