Indefinitely
[ɪn'defɪnɪtlɪ] or [ɪn'dɛfɪnətli]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) to an indefinite extent; for an indefinite time; 'this could go on indefinitely'.
埃尔默編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(adv.) In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely.
校對:斯坦顿
例句/造句/用法:
- Catherine Barkley was greatly liked by the nurses because she would do night duty indefinitely. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- But this agreeable holiday freedom with which Lydgate hovered about the flower of Middlemarch, could not continue indefinitely. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But intellectual tools are indefinitely more flexible in their range of adaptation than other mechanical tools. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- You couldn't do these things indefinitely. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I observed that the latter always spoke of himself indefinitely, as 'a man', and seldom or never in the first person singular. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The advantages of this process are that the fruit juices will remain sweet indefinitely, will not ferment, and are free from all deleterious matter. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Set going under adequate conditions they are magnets for gathering and retaining an indefinitely wide scope of intellectual considerations. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He concluded that anything which could be created indefinitely by a process of friction could not be a substance, such as sulphur or hydrogen, but must be a mode of motion. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- She wanted it also, but she wanted to put it off, to put it off indefinitely, she still had some pity for Gerald, some connection with him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Upon my honour,' said Mr. Micawber, indefinitely kissing his hand and bowing with his genteelest air, 'I do Homage to Miss Wickfield! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- But that readjustment cannot be indefinitely delayed; it must come soon. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This device is known as an electromagnet, and the charging and discharging of such a magnet may, of course, be repeated indefinitely. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Every activity, however specific, is, of course, general in its ramified connections, for it leads out indefinitely into other things. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In the first place, his knowledge extends indefinitely beyond the range of the pupil's acquaintance. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Since they represent the results of prior experience, their value for future experience may, of course, be indefinitely great. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In fact the growth of the newly opened Western country must have been indefinitely retarded if men had had to cut the grain by hand and harvest it in the primitive manner. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Air is more dense at the surface of the earth, and becomes continually more rarified as the altitude increases, until it becomes an indefinitely tenuous ether. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- You anticipate an indefinitely threatening, dreadful doom? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- With such perfect freedom of movement, the spindle at high speed could find its own center of revolution, and an indefinitely high speed and quadrupled efficiency were attained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- But the iron would necessarily have to be drawn out in such a process, while the cotton wool could be indefinitely packed together. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- In all the higher forms this process cannot be kept up indefinitely. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Future explorations of an indefinitely more detailed and extensive sort remain to be made. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The world was bound by the snowy Himalayas to the north and spread indefinitely to the south. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- New metals, chemicals, and elements had become available in large numbers, gases had been liquefied and solidified, and the range of useful heat and cold indefinitely extended. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
校對:斯坦顿