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e·ter·ni·ty
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复数:eternities
词根:eternal
adj.eternal 永恒的;不朽的
adv.eternally 永恒地;不朽地
vt.eternalize 使永恒;使不朽;使不灭(等于eternize)
14世纪晚期,“永恒的品质”,来自古法语 eternité “永恒,永久”(12世纪),源自拉丁语 aeternitatem(格位 aeternitas),源自 aeternus “持久的,永久的”,缩写自 aeviternus “年龄大的”,来自 aevum “年龄”(源自 PIE 词根 *aiw- “生命力,生命; 长寿,永恒”)。 “无限时间”的意思来自1580年代。在 Mercian 赞美诗中,拉丁语 aeternum 被古英语 ecnisse 所注释。
Middle English eternite, from Middle French eternité, from Latin aeternitat-, aeternitas, from aeternus
The first known use of eternity was in the 14th century
ethanenoun
a colorless odorless gas that consists of carbon and hydrogen, is found in natural gas, and is used especially as a fuel
-eth1 of 2verb suffix
—used to form the archaic third person singular present of verbs
doth
-eth2 of 2
see -th entry 2
eternitynoun
the quality or state of being eternal
endless time
the state after death : immortality
time that seems to be endless
1 “In fact... since we’ve got eternity to talk, there’s something I want to tell you.”
2 We waited for what seemed like an eternity until the gate opened.
3 Another hour passed, which seemed to Hans' mother like an eternity.
又一个小时过去了,可在汉斯母亲看来似乎过了很漫长的时间。
4 He casts them in the burning pit of hell where they burn for eternity.
5 I’ve no idea how long it took us to reach the windy summit of Lafayette other than that it was a double eternity.
6 "The hours she spent trying to fix her beloveds stretched into eternity after eternity, until..."
7 It must have been just a second or two that I stood there, expecting to die, but it felt like an eternity.
8 It is about mummies and treasures, about sphinxes and pyramids, about majesty, supremacy, magic and eternity.
这本书讲述了木乃伊和宝藏, 狮身人面像和金字塔, 讲述王权 、 霸权 、 魔法和来世.
9 It seems like an eternity before I finally find my way to the stairs.
10 A mind foolish enough to a comedy to eternity has lost its salvation.
心智若愚蠢到接受喜剧而非永恒的话,它将不会被救赎.
11 Once the skeleton was picked clean, it would begin, often, to float, like seaweed in a quiet tide, shifting this way and that, sometimes surfacing, more often just journeying through the Snow Sand for eternity.
12 Seconds plodded by, each separated from the next by an eternity.
13 The ringing went on for what seemed an eternity, and then someone answered.
电话响了似乎很长一段时间,然后有人接了电话。
14 For an eternity of silence the mother stood there in the spotlight, drawing her head back on her neck in fear and puzzlement.
15 Even so, his mother had smiled and shown that willingness to love the man who was responsible for dividing his father up throughout eternity.
16 I have always found the thought of eternity terrifying.
我向来觉得永生的想法很可怕。
17 Next week is as far ahead as his future stretches and the year between Christmas and Christmas again is an eternity.
18 Then at last, it seemed eternity, she began to control herself.
19 He waited with new thirst like a hunter at a chasm where the life cycle ends, where there is an end to causes, where painless eternity begins.
20 He took to gazing at the mountains and the trees, even at faces, as though to memorize them for eternity.
1 漫长的时间
3 无穷期
4 永远
eternal perpetual unending undying dateless atemporal sempiternal tarnal eternally evermore timelessly immortally eon foreverness to the world's end for evermore for perpetuity to perpetuity till kingdom come in aeternum until the cows come home for ever for all time without end always forever till Doomsday to the end of time once and for all for keeps ageless deathless alway forevermore everlasting for a constancy forever and a day once for all to the end of the chapter to the world end until hell freezes over to the end
5 极长的时间
9 无穷无尽
11 永恒
world-without-end eonian eternal timeless abiding deathless unbegotten aye unfailingly everlasting perpetuity eon timelessness foreverness permanent perpetual undying ageless unfailing permanence in perpetuity eviternity unchanging changeless immutable indelible eternally unkillable invariable eternalize eternize unending imperishable uncreated indefectible supertemporal ewigkeit to all eternity
12 不朽
eternal immortal undying imperishable unfading everlasting perpetuate monumental deathless immortality immortalize
13 死
death sleep nothingness quietus die breathe snuff croak decease flatline cark go bung go the way of all flesh the last breath hand in dinner pail kick the bucket turn up toes have had chips
14 无限
unlimited infinite sovereign bottomless immeasurable nth unbounded plenipotentiary measureless illimitable immensurable clean ocean infinity immensity without end any amount of without number
15 来世
future otherworldly eternally beyond hereafter afterlife futurity afterworld Great Beyond the life beyond next world kingdom come world to come future life the next world another world the other world other-worldly life the world to come incarnation the next life the beyond otherworld nether world
16 永劫