agelong
/eyj-lawng, -long/US // ˈeɪdʒˌlɔŋ, -ˌlɒŋ //
延长,延长线,延长时间,延长的
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : lasting for an age.
Examples
You have but emerged from primitive conditions: we have a literature, a priesthood, an agelong history and a polity.
Such consequences, so wide-spread and agelong, can follow from the story of but one life.
The yellow, blinkless eyes, with knife-edge pupils, flashed with the hate of agelong feud as I edged against the wall.
The unity of our own France was forged by agelong struggles between the separate provinces.
I do not propose here to reopen the agelong dispute between free will and determinism, which seems to me largely verbal.
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