| 单词 | eternal |
| 释义 | eternal (once / 102 pages) adj 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. 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. WORD FAMILYeternal: eternalise, eternalize, eternally, eternise, eternity, eternize+/eternalise: eternalised/eternalize: eternalized, eternalizes, eternalizing/eternise: eternised, eternises, eternising/eternity: eternities/eternize: eternized, eternizing USAGE EXAMPLESCalled “Eternal Sites: From Bamiyan to Palmyra,” the show aims to draw attention to the rising threats to global heritage. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) But these were questions to add to the eternal mystery of Egyptian police work. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) There is something profound & terrible in this eternal desire to establish contact. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) 1adj continuing forever or indefinitely eternal truths Syn aeonian, ageless, eonian, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending lasting, permanent continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place 2adj tiresomely long; seemingly without end the wait seemed eternal eternal quarreling Syn endless, interminable long primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified |
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