词汇 | interminable |
释义 | interminable adjective uk /ɪnˈtɜː.mɪ.nə.bəl/ us /ɪnˈtɝː.mɪ.nə.bəl/ continuing for too long and therefore boring or annoying: 无休止的,冗长不堪的 an interminable delay没完没了的延误 his interminable stories他讲的一些冗长乏味的故事 Synonym endless Continuous & permanent abiding abidingly ad infinitum around-the-clock be here to stayidiom immanence immanent immanently imperishable on the spinidiom on the trotidiom perennial permanence permanency unrelentingly unrelieved unrelievedly unremitting unremittingly Related wordinterminably interminable | American Dictionaryinterminable adjective us/ɪnˈtɜr·mə·nə·bəl/ continuing for too long and seeming never to end: interminable arguments interminablyadverbus/ɪnˈtɜr·mə·nə·bli/ They talked interminably. Examples of interminableinterminable The government could not deal with pressing social and economic ills because the interminable conflicts drained the country's resources. I undertake an interminable exegesis of bits and pieces as they constitute a frame through whose united contexts the focal ' ' shadow ' ' takes its metaphoric tension. The result was interminable delays, a lack of public information, and hence the rumours and ethnic tensions continued to swell. The cultivation and harvest of food were not interminable affairs but ones pursued only as long as was needed to sustain a household. It should be noted that time excludes position because it consists in an interminable course. Given the interminable revisions imposed on composers, the 75 per cent was postponed indefinitely to a hazy and uncertain future. Their interminable 3-year interim courtship is depicted by a deliberately repetitive film sequence. It is perpetually doomed therefore to interminable discussions of the same issues. Decisions need to be kept as close as possible to the patient and interminable delay, occasioned by seemingly endless consultation, seeking reconciliation of basically irreconcilable views should be avoided. The irony is that conflicting views with regard to appropriate technical specifications among the leading stakeholders was what caused interminable delays under the old legislative approach. Philosophy had distorted the proper understanding of faith and had precipitated bitter and interminable theological disputes that would never be resolved. And an interminable sentence of legal fog can be split into ten sentences or broken down into a plain introductory statement followed by a list of points. But if they were pressed to explain its cause or nature, they might well find that the answers sleeping in their minds were uncoordinated and interminable. The study, however, shows that despite the use of media, symbols and election campaigning, the process of identity construction from above can be complex and interminable. This we all realise, of course, and it has spawned this interminable and very necessary discussion about multi-disciplinary collaboration which has been going on for years. 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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