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单词 perpetual
释义
perpetual
adjective
uk
/pəˈpetʃ.u.əl/us
/pɚˈpetʃ.u.əl/
continuingforeverin the same way:
永久的，永恒的；长期的
Theylivedin perpetualfearof beingdiscovered.他们长期生活在恐惧中，担心被发现。
He has hard,coldeyesand hismouthis set in a perpetualsneer.他双眼又凶又冷，嘴角总是挂着一丝蔑笑。
a perpetualstudent终生学习者
oftenrepeated:
不断重复的；永无休止的
perpetualvandalism对公共财物不断的蓄意破坏
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Continually & repeatedly
(Definition ofperpetualfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

perpetual| American Dictionary

perpetual
adjective[not gradable]
us
/pərˈpetʃ·u·əl/
continuingforever, orhappeningall thetime:
Theylivedin perpetualfearof beingdiscovered.
Sheresentedhis perpetualcomplainingabout hercooking.

perpetually

adverb[not gradable]us
/pərˈpetʃ·u·ə·li/
She is perpetually late.
(Definition ofperpetualfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

perpetual| Business English

perpetual
adjective
uk
/pəˈpetʃuəl/us
FINANCE
used todescribeabondor otherinvestmentthatpaysinterestforever:
CPissued£88 million of perpetualbondsfrom 1889onward.
(Definition ofperpetualfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofperpetual

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Miles are walked in exchange for a feeling ofperpetualdefeat.
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He views action in purely amoral and aesthetic terms asperpetualvirtuosity.
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Moreover, along withperpetualrecycling of forms, delexicalization processes appear to start and stop and pick up again.
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The majority of sentences were forperpetualimprisonment, but many of these were released a year or so later.
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Therefore, forging a life annuity was capital, but forging aperpetualannuity was not.
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Both efforts were internally contradictory and externally became the basis ofperpetualconflict.
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Now divine laws are perfect andperpetual, while human laws are unstable and in continual need of renewal.
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Raising, or at least maintaining, one's rank in the hierarchy is aperpetualbattle, and turnover within the population is constant.
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The investigations into the security of the burrow are marked by their structural unreliability, by aperpetualfolding of opposites into another.
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If this is true, doing theatre signifies interrupting ourperpetualperformance.
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Every sound is in essence an ephemeral entity, possessing nothingperpetualbut our memory of it.
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The capital stock is derived by theperpetualinventory method.
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One of the characteristics of the discourses to be constructed under such a system is the production of "perpetualspirals of power and pleasure".
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Seen in this light, parties are by definition dynamic organizations inperpetualtransformation, and religious parties are no exception.
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Until recent decades, a woman who had a failure of ovulation was doomed toperpetualbarrenness.
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