英:[ɪnˈvetərət]
美:[ɪnˈvɛtərɪt]
英:[ɪnˈvetərət]
美:[ɪnˈvɛtərɪt]
in·vet·er·ate
ihn ve t riht
inveterately (adv.), inveteracy (n.)
词根:inveterate
adv.inveterately 积习地;根深蒂固地
adjective
persisting in a habit, action, feeling, or the like.She was an inveterate gossip and could never resist passing on whatever scuttlebutt she chanced to hear.
firmly established after continuing for some time, as a chronic illness.
14世纪晚期,“旧的”,源自拉丁语 inveteratus “长期存在的,慢性的,旧的”,源自 inveterare 的过去分词“变老”,其中 in- 表示“在...之内”(源自 PIE 词根 *en “在...之内”),而 vetus(属格 veteris)则表示“旧的”(参见 veteran)。从15世纪初开始,“经过长时间的坚定确立”; 从大约1500年开始,用于人,“习惯等已经变得坚定”(相关词: Inveterateness)。
慢性的,痼疾的,绵延难治的,长期形成的
Middle English, from Latin inveteratus, from past participle of inveterare to age (transitive verb), from in- + veter-, vetus old — more at wether
The first known use of inveterate was in the 15th century
invigorateverb
to give life and energy to
invidiousadjective
of an unpleasant or objectionable kind
invidious criticism
of a kind to cause resentment
an invidious comparison
invidiousadjective
of an unpleasant or objectionable kind
invidious criticism
of a kind to cause resentment
an invidious comparison
inveterateadjective
firmly established by age or by long continuation
inveterate habits
habitual sense 2
an inveterate complainer
inveterateadjective
marked by long duration or frequent recurrence
inveterate bursitis
confirmed in a habit : habitual sense 2
an inveterate smoker
1 They reflect the foibles and ambitions of the deceased - an inveterate drinker may be buried in a giant beer bottle, a lothario in a coffin shaped like a reclining naked woman.
2 We’re both Jews, inveterate mumblers, the same age and, despite a difference in height, similar in appearance.
3 Announced of at the end last year the monitors benQ FP241VW, oriented to the inveterate lovers of computer games, any minute now will appear on the regiments of magazines.
宣布,在比去年末监察明基f p 241vw,面向向习爱好者的电脑游戏,任何分钟,现在将出现在团的杂志。
4 Montgomery, an inveterate explorer, is the creator of the pioneering Scientists in the Field series, which wonderfully combines up-to-date science with portraits of groundbreaking scientists.
5 Organized by the artists Ken Okiishi and Nick Mauss, it often features artworks and events that even the most inveterate art pursuers may have missed.
6 Hitler was not only an avid reader but also an inveterate underliner.
希特勒不仅酷爱读书,还有写写划划的习惯.
7 ...the inveterate laziness of these boys.
这些男孩子懒惰成性
8 It is hard for an inveterate smoker to give up tobacco.
老烟鬼很难戒烟。
9 In this, as in much else, Burns seems a bundle of contradictions: an inveterate storyteller who keeps her private life to herself, a born leader who admits to bouts of loneliness.
10 Many inveterate smokers are never able to quit completely.
许多烟瘾大的人没有能力彻底戒烟.
11 Dylan is, by all reports, shy, sly, inveterately oblique.
12 He’s at ease, but he doesn’t fit, an inveterate New Yorker in a far too sunny place.
13 "The audience will be comprised of either organists, or inveterate organ nerds who carry their clothes around in paper bags and breathe through their mouths."
14 The inveterate partygoers Michael Stipe and Salman Rushdie will host.
15 Mr. De Niro’s Billy McDonnen, nicknamed the Kid, is a rowdy hard-drinking hothead and inveterate gambler who owns a successful car dealership and a restaurant.
16 JOHN McCAIN, an enthusiastic gambler and inveterate collector of lucky charms, has the luck of the devil.
麦凯恩,一个豪情赌客,他似有幸运之符附身,总是好运齐天。
17 Deng was no automatic lover of liberty, no inveterate believer in the virtues of pluralism.
邓小平肯定不是自由的天生热爱者, 更谈不上是多元化的坚定信仰者.
18 As an inveterate lifter of good stuff from contemporary prose, I wonder if this was more than unconscious borrowing?
19 It seems that your inveterate prejudice utterly affected your judgement.
看来你根深蒂固的偏见已经完全影响了你的判断力。
20 The guitarist, Angus Young, still dresses like a 50s schoolboy, underlining the inveterate puerility of AC/DC's oeuvre.
1 顽固的
donkeyish self-opinioned set contrary rocky stubborn uncompromising heady willful impenetrable inflexible wayward intractable spiky steely obstinate headstrong opinionated unrepentant strong-willed ornery obdurate flinty impenitent balky hidebound stiff-necked mulish fusty pigheaded hardheaded wrongheaded bullheaded blockish self-opinionated strong-headed ropeable hard-set hard-mouthed unpliable notionate hard as flint thrawart stiff-hearted hard-nose hard-grained hardmouthed down tough stiff sticky persistent pragmatic bullish adamant rebellious die-hard deep-seated unyielding dogged unregenerate rock-ribbed piggish bloody-minded pertinacious stouthearted brassbound opinionative unpliant
2 成癖的
3 习以为常的
6 由来已久的
7 习惯
standard used usual automatic chronic conventional accepted wont customary confirmed wonted practice custom institution trick habit groove habitude use condition harden accustom do's and don't
10 慢性
11 积习难改
12 充满敌意的
13 根深柢固的
14 顽固
donkeyish self-opinioned set contrary rocky stubborn uncompromising heady willful impenetrable inflexible wayward intractable spiky steely obstinate headstrong opinionated unrepentant strong-willed ornery obdurate flinty impenitent balky hidebound stiff-necked mulish fusty pigheaded hardheaded wrongheaded bullheaded blockish self-opinionated strong-headed ropeable hard-set hard-mouthed unpliable notionate stubbornly doggedly stiffly toughly cussedly stiffness bigotry stubbornness obstinacy doggedness pertinacity obduracy cussedness pigheadedness headiness impenitence stiffen toughen petrify hard as flint as stubborn as a mule thrawart stiff-hearted hard-nose hard-grained hardmouthed down tough stiff sticky persistent pragmatic bullish adamant rebellious die-hard deep-seated unyielding dogged unregenerate rock-ribbed piggish bloody-minded pertinacious stouthearted brassbound opinionative unpliant persistence induration self-will inveteracy unrepentance calcify with stiff neck
15 顽固不化的
hardened unregenerate hard-shell invincible hard-core impregnable obdurate dyed-in-the-wool
16 根深蒂固的
confirmed ingrained dyed-in-the-wool ineradicable fundamental profound obstinate deep-rooted deep-set double-dyed dyed in the wool inbuilt immovable strong ingrain deep-seated in grain chronic sediment root rooted settled grounded engrain deep rooted
18 习惯性的