Inveterate
[ɪn'vet(ə)rət] or [ɪn'vɛtərət]
解释:
(a.) Old; long-established.
(a.) Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse.
(a.) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
(a.) Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
(v. t.) To fix and settle by long continuance.
手打:利
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Obstinate, besetting, chronic, deep-seated, long established.[2]. Habituated, habitual, accustomed, confirmed, hardened.
校对:齐利格
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Confirmed, incarnate, ingrained, deep-rooted, chronic, habitual
ANT:Incipient, undeveloped, unformed
阿方斯校对
解释:
adj. firmly established by long continuance: deep-rooted confirmed in any habit: violent.—adv. Invet′erately.—ns. Invet′erateness Invet′eracy firmness produced by long use or continuance.
吉恩编辑
例句:
- The greed of Germany in 1871 had made France her inveterate enemy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Through his most inveterate purposes, the dead Jailer of Harmony Jail had known these two faithful servants to be honest and true. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- His most inveterate enemy was a certain Anytus, whose son, a devoted disciple of Socrates, had become a hopeless drunkard. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Such a reconnaissance, like that of a coming field of battle, was invaluable, and may help give a further idea of the man's inveterate care for the minutiae of things. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The subject was a German who kept a liquor-shop and was an inveterate drunkard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- In the arts we call this inveterate tendency classicalism. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her into a tigress. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- It revived my utmost indignation to find that she was still pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Oh, the hardness of heart of these inveterate men! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
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