词汇 | eternity |
释义 | eternity noun uk /ɪˈtɜː.nə.ti/ us /ɪˈtɝː.nə.t̬i/ [ U ] time that never ends or that has no limits: 永远,永恒;无穷 Religions gain some of their worldly power by claiming they have the key to eternity (= life that never ends). for eternity They haven't been given these rights for eternity - they should justify having them just like most other people have to. for all eternity They were branded as bigots and condemned for all eternity. an eternity a very long time: 极长的一段时间 seem like an eternity The movie went on for what seemed like an eternity.这部电影长得好像永远演不到头。 For the first time in what seemed like an eternity, she had the chance to rest. Nine months is a long time for anyone, but it's an eternity for the very young.对任何人来说,9个月都是很长的一段时间,而对于小孩子来说,简直就是遥遥无期。 In the world of politics, three weeks is an eternity. We waited for an eternity for the concert to begin. Long periods of time -athon a long haulidiom aeon age be in something for the long haulidiom donkey eon epoch era for days, weeks, months, years, etc. for eternity forever and a dayidiom good haul long long-stay month not in a month of Sundaysidiom time yonks Idiomsend someone to eternity eternity | American Dictionaryeternity noun[ U ] us/ɪˈtɜr·nɪ·t̬i/ time that never ends: At her age, even a few months can seem like an eternity. Examples of eternityeternity One cannot constrain eternity to either the past or the future. Underlying this motif, therefore, is a dialectical relationship between history and eternity whose interrelationship ultimately redeems time itself. On the other hand, temporal eternity, or even eternal regularity a parte ante, is no explanation of the fact that something exists here and now. We are promised spiritual eternity, so why not a fatalism? And the eternity condition narrows the range of certitude to ' 'necessary intelligibles,' ' which it seems unlikely that one could know merely accidentally. Intellectual time resembles eternity; it is a pattern of eternity; it accordingly governs the sensible world, and physical time participates in it. This leads, then, to a discussion of divine eternity. For an eternity / to feel the breath lent him / to breathe in humanity? From this text, one could gain the impression that it is possible for dialectic to prove the eternity or the non-eternity of the world. In doing so, conversion is removed from being an isolated political act and regarded as part of the temporal process which precedes eternity. All this language, in my opinion, weakens, if not obliterates, the distinction between eternity and the whole of time. Second, one can say that the body was initially at rest in pre-eternity, then it moved. If we cannot grasp eternity as a movement forwards or backwards, we might think of it as circular or repetitive. According to that, they have the opinion that he upholds the eternity of the world. Ironically, it is through this dying that the depth of non-ego and its infinity and eternity can be glimpsed. See all examples of eternity 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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