| 词汇 | indefinite |
| 释义 | indefinite adjective uk /ɪnˈdef.ɪ.nət/ us /ɪnˈdef.ən.ət/ not exact, not clear, or without clear limits: 不确定的;不清楚的;无限期的 indefinite periodThe project has been postponed for an indefinite period.这项目被无限期推迟了。 indefinite number Many of these folk songs are extremely long with an indefinite number of verses. Uncertainty amorphous be neither fish nor fowlidiom blurringly blurry circumstantial indeterminate indeterminately insecurely insecurity interrogatively murky shakiness shallowly slippery spec squishy wavery wifty wishy-washy you never knowidiom indefinite | American Dictionaryindefinite adjective us/ɪnˈdef·ə·nət/ not exact or not clear; without clear limits: It was a wonderful opportunity, but it meant leaving family and friends for an indefinite period, perhaps forever. Examples of indefiniteindefinite While purely indefinite examples are hard to come by, verbal gerunds do participate in the ambiguity patterns also found for bare nominal gerunds. The agreement was too indefinite to be enforced - how long was the loan supposed to run? Yet, in practice, determiner noun modifiers are far more likely to be definite than indefinite. The different results on the use of indefinite and definite articles may result from different levels of analysis. There are diverging results on age of onset of gender marking and on erroneous gender marking of indefinite and definite articles. Table 1 presents the forms of the definite and indefinite articles. Some children start with definite, others with indefinite articles, others with both. For the present analysis gender marked definite and indefinite article forms were used irrespective of case. Quantificational notions are instead expressed by nominals, which exhibit systematic ambiguities between weak (indefinite), strong (definite), and predicative interpretations. The indefinite placing of this period is echoed by the very ambiguity of the character himself. In response to this, the need has arisen for an indefinite pronominal form or a form which will in a sense be ' gender neutral'. Nouns appearing with definite articles were approximately the same frequency and length as nouns appearing with indefinite articles. Incompatibility of indefinite subjects with progressive aspect must be due to the fact that middles in the progressive describe specific, ongoing events. This countability judgment was compared with their performance on a cloze test for 24 obligatory indefinite articles. An opposition between two of these nine functions is crucial for at least some indefinite pronouns in some languages. 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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