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词汇 forever
释义 forever
adverb
(UK alsofor ever)uk /fəˈre.vər/ us /fɔːˈrev.ɚ/
B1
for all time: 永远
I like the house but I don't imagine I'll live there forever.我喜欢那栋房子,但是我想我不会在那里永远住下去。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

every time
alwaysHe always leaves the lights on.
constantlyHe's constantly losing his keys.
continuallyShe is continually late to class.
for everI am for ever misplacing my bag!
time after timeTime after time he comes back and pretends like nothing has happened.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

for a very long time
alwaysThe power plant is always running.
for everI will love you for ever.
permanentlyHis reputation was permanently ruined by the scandal.
eternallyEvildoers shall be eternally condemned.
uninterruptedlyStocks have risen uninterruptedly for the last three months.
B2
for an extremely long time or too much time: 长久地
take foreverWe'd better walk a bit quicker - it's going to take forever if we go at this pace.我们最好走快一点儿——如果以这个速度走下去,我们得走很久。
very often: 屡次,经常
She's forever telling him she's going to leave him but she never actually does.她老是跟他说要离开他,但实际上从未那样做过。
Each transaction at the foreign exchange counter seems to take forever.外币兑换柜台的每笔交易似乎都要花很长时间。
I know she's gone forever, but I just can't put her out of my mind.
That look of pure grief would be imprinted on her mind forever.
The awful sound of the crash will be stamped on her memory forever.撞车时那可怕的声音将永远留在她的记忆中。
The city has a timeless quality as if it had existed forever.该市具有一种永恒的品质,似乎它亘古以来就存在。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Continuous & permanent
abiding
abidingly
ad infinitum
around-the-clock
be
immanence
immanent
immanently
imperishable
imperishably
on the spinidiom
on the trotidiom
perennial
permanence
permanency
unrelentingly
unrelieved
unrelievedly
unremitting
unremittingly

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Continually & repeatedly

Grammar



Always: meaning
Always can mean ‘on every occasion’, ‘forever’ or ‘very frequently’. In these meanings we use it with simple tense forms: …

Always with continuous verb forms
We can use always with continuous verb forms to refer to regular events or states, especially ones which are problematic or which we do not like or want: …

Always: position
We most commonly use always in mid position, between the subject and main verb, after the modal verb or first auxiliary verb, or after main verb be: …

Always with can and could
We often use always with can and could to talk about possible solutions to problems: …

As always
We use as always to talk about one event which is seen as typical: …

Always, for good or for ever?
When we talk about things which will be permanent, we normally use for good, or, more formally, for ever (sometimes written as forever). We do not normally say for always: …

Idiom


forever and a day
forever
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /fəˈre.vər/ us /fɔːˈrev.ɚ/
existing or happening for all time in the future:
forever homeToday, more than 500,000 US children wait in foster care for a forever home.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Continuous & permanent
abiding
abidingly
ad infinitum
around-the-clock
be
immanence
immanent
immanently
imperishable
imperishably
on the spinidiom
on the trotidiom
perennial
permanence
permanency
unrelentingly
unrelieved
unrelievedly
unremitting
unremittingly

forever | American Dictionary


forever
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/fərˈev·ər, fɔr-/
for all time, without end:
Nobody lives forever.
Forever can also mean always or frequently:
She was forever late for appointments.
He was forever saying that he’d pay me back, but he never did.

Examples of forever


forever
Otherwise, we forever run the risk of remaining detached and of pretending that we can occupy a position entirely outside ideological discourse.
We may even think it proper to deny them voting rights, perhaps forever.
Creating a child creates an iredeemable future and changes forever the fabric of life.
If you were to live forever, your actions would not matter as much as they do, and they would lack the seriousness which they have.
Once good samples have been obtained, the frozen vitreous-ice samples can be stored ' forever ' in liquid nitrogen.
I don't wish to be left hanging around forever.
Both were forever generous with ideas, always extremely critical, but never destructive.
In a classical or intuitionistic proof, as soon as a proposition is established, it remains true forever.
In addition, the analysis also includes intensifiers, such as universal and negative pronouns (all, nothing), amplifiers (a lot, forever), and emphatics (extreme/-ly/, total/-ly/).
Perhaps the mysterious will remain forever guarded by its own definition, but at least now some of its doors have keys.
From date s2 on, government policy parameters will remain constant through date s = s3 on forever.
The temple has been rent by the riotous energy of the natural world; it is about to be lost forever to the undergrowth.
The riders must ' ride forever on that range up in the sky'.
They recognised that life does not go on forever, the life-story leads to an end.
Finally, and in this context most importantly, if the vernacular road system was unpaved and constantly changing, the imperial highways were meant to endure forever.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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