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单词 ad infinitum
释义
ad infinitum
adverb
uk
/ˌæd ɪn.fɪˈnaɪ.təm/us
/ˌæd ɪn.fəˈnaɪ.t̬əm/
forever, withoutending:
无限地；无休止地
"Why was she such alousyboss?" "Oh, because she wasunreasonable,disrespectful,rude,inconsiderate- I could go on ad infinitum."“她怎么是个这么讨厌的老板呢？”“噢，因为她不可理喻、傲慢无礼、粗鲁蛮横、麻木不仁——你想听多少我都可以列出来。”
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(Definition ofad infinitumfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofad infinitum

ad infinitum
However, a restriction on the maximum size of a cell is not unrealistic biologically, since in reality cells do not increase in sizeadinfinitum.
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So that a thing will either be at rest or must be movedadinfinitum, unless something more powerful gets in its way.
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So part of that remembering must be the memory of remembering the whole of his life in his dying moment, and so onadinfinitum.
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No formal structure is agreed in advance, and so the musicians continuously respond to each otheradinfinitum.
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Note that, once (b) is reached, it will be repeatedadinfinitum.
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This line of reasoning can be reiteratedadinfinitum.
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This embedding of intentions could, in principle, go onadinfinitum.
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However, the majority of the work recorded on the tapes is snippets of these cells that are tweaked and remixedadinfinitum.
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There are spiral movements for the newly born to eventually become the established, on which basis further institutional evolution can be moldedadinfinitum.
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It should be clear that such efforts at improving the likelihood of the creation of a better possible world can continueadinfinitum.
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The capacity of the golden-section rectangle to proliferateadinfinitumis expressed by the series of numbers: 1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144 etc., known as summation.
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Examples such as these can be multipliedadinfinitum.
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Not only that, is it necessary that each agent knows that every other agent knows that, that every other knows that, etc.adinfinitum?
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Texts about electroacoustic music generated by other texts about electroacoustic music,adinfinitum.
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One possible explanation for this finding lies in the very nature of such adverbial phrases, which have an unspecific scope that tends to extendadinfinitum.
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