Interminable
[ɪn'tɜːmɪnəb(ə)l] or [ɪn'tɝmɪnəbl]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings.
手打:谢莉
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Illimitable, unlimited, boundless, unbounded, limitless, endless, infinite.
卡莱尔編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Unending, endless, everlasting, perpetual, infinite, boundless, illimitable,limitless
ANT:Terminable, brief, moderate, curt, short, momentary
乔治娜手打
解釋/意思:
adj. without termination or limit: boundless: endless.—n. Inter′minableness.—adv. Inter′minably.—Interminate decimal a decimal conceived as carried to an infinity of places.
整理:罗德尼
例句/造句/用法:
- Lonely musings, interminable wanderings, and solemn music were her only pastimes. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The statues are all large; the palace is grand; the park covers a fair-sized county; the avenues are interminable. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, mosslike vegetation which stretched around me in all directions for interminable miles. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- It was as though all the weariness of the past months had culminated in the vacuity of that interminable evening. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- And presently, Margaret, racking her brain to talk to Fanny, heard her mother and Mrs. Thornton plunge into the interminable subject of servants. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Thus, throughout the life of Edison's patents on electric light, power, and distribution, the interminable legal strife has continued from day to day, from year to year. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Fresh doubts, fresh difficulties, fresh delays began to open before me in interminable prospect. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- In silence we again drove for an interminable distance with the windows raised, until at last, just after midnight, the carriage pulled up. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The world is vast, and England, though her many fields and wide spread woods seem interminable, is but a small part of her. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- To be spared from her aunt Norris's interminable reproaches! 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Would the session not become an interminable wrangle? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Shall I wake, and speak to none, pass the interminable hours, my soul, islanded in the world, a solitary point, surrounded by vacuum? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Far away the staring roads, deep in dust, stared from the hill-side, stared from the hollow, stared from the interminable plain. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Sir Leicester has no objection to an interminable Chancery suit. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
整理:罗德尼