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词汇 interminably
释义 interminably
adverb
uk /ɪnˈtɜː.mɪ.nə.bli/ us /ɪnˈtɝː.mɪ.nə.bli/
in a way that continues for too long and therefore is boring or annoying: 无休止地,冗长不堪地
They talked interminably.他们说起话来没完没了。
They performed an interminably long set of love songs. 他们演奏了一组冗长的情歌。
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interminable
It was a confusing and interminably slow process.
The investigations dragged on interminably.
Callers to the helpline are forced to wait on the line for interminably long periods.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Continuous & permanent
abiding
abidingly
ad infinitum
around-the-clock
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here to stayidiom
immanence
immanent
immanently
imperishable
on the spinidiom
on the trotidiom
perennial
permanence
permanency
unrelentingly
unrelieved
unrelievedly
unremitting
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Examples of interminably


interminably
As the conference dragged interminably onward and no progress seemed possible, many of the more prominent figures departed.
But they also benefited because the penniless and hung-over shepherds returned for another year of interminably monotonous shepherding.
Some governments intended to privatise but have found the process interminably slow.
Shepherding was slow, unskilled, interminably monotonous, safe and done on foot.
Yet sometimes it seemed to me that the books lying everywhere around me were like gossips chattering to me interminably about their authors' vanity and mine.
The man could be incarcerated interminably without even a solicitor or his relatives knowing where he was.
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That is a much lesser evil than that large numbers of litigants, solicitors and counsel should be kept waiting interminably.
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There could be cases which dragged on almost interminably, possibly to nobody's advantage.
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Otherwise, as he knows, they are likely to be dragged on interminably, and goods will be coming in all the time.
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The scheme seems to be dragging on interminably.
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First, we must try to broaden the basis of the disarmament discussions which have dragged on so interminably in the past.
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Should they do that at the cost of prolonging the inquiry interminably?
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I say that with the greatest regard for him, but he has repeated his questions interminably and in his customary elegant manner.
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The two protagonists and their international supporters can argue interminably, and sometimes even convincingly, to justify their sides' violence.
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It is difficult sometimes to remember that fact, because we must divide our debates; otherwise, we should go on interminably.
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