Infinite
['ɪnfɪnət]
解释:
(adj.) total and all-embracing; 'God's infinite wisdom' .
(adj.) having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude; 'the infinite ingenuity of man'; 'infinite wealth' .
(adj.) of verbs; having neither person nor number nor mood (as a participle or gerund or infinitive); 'infinite verb form' .
格雷格整理--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance.
(a.) Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably great; perfect; as, the infinite wisdom and goodness of God; -- opposed to finite.
(a.) Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious.
(a.) Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind; -- said of certain quantities.
(a.) Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated.
(n.) That which is infinite; boundless space or duration; infinity; boundlessness.
(n.) An infinite quantity or magnitude.
(n.) An infinity; an incalculable or very great number.
(n.) The Infinite Being; God; the Almighty.
埃尔伯特编辑
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Unbounded, boundless, unlimited, illimitable, limitless, immeasurable, interminable.[2]. Immense, enormous, vast, stupendous, very great, very large.
贾维斯整理
同义词及反义词：
[See IMMEASURABLE]
编辑:凯利
解释:
adj. without end or limit: without bounds: (math.) either greater or smaller than any quantity that can be assigned.—n. that which is not only without determinate bounds but which cannot possibly admit of bound or limit: the Absolute the Infinite Being or God.—adjs. Infin′itant denoting merely negative attribution; Infin′itary pertaining to infinity.—v.t. Infin′itāte to make infinite.—adv. In′finitely.—n. In′finiteness the state of being infinite: immensity.—adj. Infinites′imal infinitely small.—n. an infinitely small quantity.—adv. Infinites′imally.—adj. Infini′to (mus.) perpetual.—ns. Infin′itūde Infin′ity boundlessness: immensity: countless or indefinite number.
哈维整理
例句:
- With infinite difficulty, for he was stubborn as a stone, I persuaded him to make an exchange in favour of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Might he be trusted with the commission, what infinite pleasure should he have in executing it! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- The variety of peoples and environments, their contrast with familiar scenes, furnishes infinite stimulation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- To her infinite grief she found it was not. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Ten minutes later, to our infinite relief; Superintendent Seegrave arrived at the house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The work that Edison did was, as usual, marked by infinite variety of method as well as by the power to seize on the one needed element of practical success. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Mrs Merdle had shown him that the case of Edmund was urgent, and that infinite advantages might result from his having some good thing directly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- And surely, he said, this occurs notably in the case of one; for we see the same thing to be both one and infinite in multitude? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Its possible extent, therefore, is in a manner infinite in comparison of that of the other two, and is capable of absorbing the greatest capitals. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Oh, dear, thought Meg, married life is very trying, and does need infinite patience as well as love, as Mother says. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- He found in her an infinite relief. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow, and quenched in infinite wretchedness. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Persia, with its cloth of gold, marble halls, and infinite wealth, is now a tomb. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- To my infinite relief, he was a capable man. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I might give as instances those arguments for infinite divisibility, which are derived from the point of contact. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
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