Endless
['endlɪs] or ['ɛndləs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole; 'an endless chain' .
(adj.) infinitely great in number; 'endless waves' .
(adj.) tiresomely long; seemingly without end; 'endless debates'; 'an endless conversation'; 'the wait seemed eternal'; 'eternal quarreling'; 'an interminable sermon' .
埃文編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.
(a.) Infinite; excessive; unlimited.
(a.) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
(a.) Void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit.
校對:伦道夫
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Interminable, illimitable, unlimited, boundless, immeasurable, infinite.[2]. Eternal, everlasting, perpetual, incessant, continual, uninterrupted.[3]. Immortal, undying, deathless, ever-living, never-dying, imperishable.[4]. Objectless, without purpose or design.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Interminable, illimitable, {[uueiiUi]?}, ug, unceasing, boundless, deathless,imperishable, everlasting, perpetual, eternal, infinite
ANT:Terminable, limited, temporary, brief, transient, periodic, ephemeral,fugitive, finite
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例句/造句/用法:
- Thus it will be possible to introduce almost endless changes in the style of house by variation of the same set of molds. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- We looked again, and saw, through the arbor, an endless stretch of garden, and shrubbery, and grassy lawn. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The first embossed metal plates were linked together in the form of an endless chain, similar to the rubber type plates. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- From the delicate hair spring of a watch to the massive armor plate of a battleship, it finds endless applications, and is nature’s most enduring gift to man--abundant, cheap, and lasting. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Because it was so endless, so hopeless. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- On the ends of the shafts of the bottom and top rolls there were cylindrical sleeves, or bearings, having seven sheaves in which was run a half-inch endless wire rope. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Then you are treated to endless discussions by the critics trying to prove that it is not a play. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He was still for two or three minutes, which seemed endless to her, unable to speak or move, gasping for breath. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The endless disputes whether or not some fifty species of British brambles are good species will cease. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- An endless number of inventors had in the meantime entered the lists. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I enlarged upon many other topics, which the natural desire of endless life, and sublunary happiness, could easily furnish me with. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Endless leather belting was used to transmit the power from the motor to the counter-shaft, and from the latter to the driving-wheels, which were the front pair. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This machine infringed the partners’ patents, and caused them an almost endless series of expensive lawsuits. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Full souls are double mirrors, making still An endless vista of fair things before, Repeating things behind. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- When Woola had finished his meal I again took up my weary and seemingly endless wandering in quest of the elusive waterway. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- These type holders were then ingeniously linked together in the form of an endless chain. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The artist and the adaptor have still hardly begun to work with the endless variety of substances now at their disposal. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- O endless vocatives that would still leave expression slipping helpless from the measurement of mortal folly! 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The sense of talk, buzzing, jarring, half-secret, the endless mining and political wrangling, vibrated in the air like discordant machinery. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- We were greeted with an endless round of applause and showered with ornaments of gold, platinum, silver, and precious jewels. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Into this there is delivered by the endless chain of buckets shown on the left a continuous stream of a special free-flowing concrete mixture. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This was an endless steel belt serrated on one edge, mounted on pulleys, and driven continuously by the power of steam through the hardest and the heaviest work. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Pyroxiline, xyloidine, and celluloid are allied products, which have found endless applications in toilet articles and for other uses, as a substitute for hard rubber. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- A compact little stitching apparatus, not larger than a tea-pot, is actuated by an endless belt from an electric motor at one end. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- But he sent over endless remembrances of himself to his godson and to her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Slowly we moved through endless corridors of unthinkable beauty; through magnificent apartments, and noble halls. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Needless to say, the working out of the conditions and processes of manufacture of the materials has involved great ingenuity and endless experimentation. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The examples are endless. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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