| 词汇 | perpetual |
| 释义 | perpetual adjective uk /pəˈpetʃ.u.əl/ us /pɚˈpetʃ.u.əl/ continuing for ever in the same way: 永久的，永恒的;长期的 They lived in perpetual fear of being discovered.他们长期生活在恐惧中，担心被发现。 He has hard, cold eyes and his mouth is set in a perpetual sneer.他双眼又凶又冷，嘴角总是挂着一丝蔑笑。 a perpetual student终生学习者 often repeated: 不断重复的;永无休止的 perpetual vandalism对公共财物不断的蓄意破坏 Always & never again all alongidiom all-time along always ever fail hell in all my (born) daysidiom in/through all the yearsidiom invariably kingdom month on demandidiom perpetually till/until kingdom comeidiom till/until the cows come homeidiom unprecedentedly whenever world You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Continually & repeatedly perpetual | American Dictionaryperpetual adjective[ not gradable ] us/pərˈpetʃ·u·əl/ continuing forever, or happening all the time: They lived in perpetual fear of being discovered. She resented his perpetual complaining about her cooking. perpetuallyadverb[ not gradable ]us/pərˈpetʃ·u·ə·li/ She is perpetually late. perpetual | Business Englishperpetual adjective uk /pəˈpetʃuəl/us FINANCE used to describe a bond or other investment that pays interest for ever: CP issued £88 million of perpetual bonds from 1889 onward. Examples of perpetualperpetual Miles are walked in exchange for a feeling of perpetual defeat. He views action in purely amoral and aesthetic terms as perpetual virtuosity. Moreover, along with perpetual recycling of forms, delexicalization processes appear to start and stop and pick up again. The majority of sentences were for perpetual imprisonment, but many of these were released a year or so later. Therefore, forging a life annuity was capital, but forging a perpetual annuity was not. Both efforts were internally contradictory and externally became the basis of perpetual conflict. Now divine laws are perfect and perpetual, while human laws are unstable and in continual need of renewal. Raising, or at least maintaining, one's rank in the hierarchy is a perpetual battle, and turnover within the population is constant. The investigations into the security of the burrow are marked by their structural unreliability, by a perpetual folding of opposites into another. If this is true, doing theatre signifies interrupting our perpetual performance. Every sound is in essence an ephemeral entity, possessing nothing perpetual but our memory of it. The capital stock is derived by the perpetual inventory method. One of the characteristics of the discourses to be constructed under such a system is the production of "perpetual spirals of power and pleasure". Seen in this light, parties are by definition dynamic organizations in perpetual transformation, and religious parties are no exception. Until recent decades, a woman who had a failure of ovulation was doomed to perpetual barrenness. See all examples of perpetual 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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