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immortality

/im-awr-tal-i-tee/US // ˌɪm ɔrˈtæl ɪ ti //

长生不老,不朽,永生,长生不死

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : immortal condition or quality; unending life.
    • : enduring fame.

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Examples

  • Growing up, my dad, a doctor obsessed with the idea of immortality, would tell how his grandparents back in Lebanon had lived well past the 100-year mark.

  • Others argue it is far from obvious what the ancient Egyptians—who desperately sought immortality—would have wanted, or who should speak for them now.

  • A victor wins laurels, but a glorious loser gains immortality.

  • Regeneration provides a kind of immortality that may have clues for human lifespans.

  • Even when their generators go cold and the ships wink out, they will remain, in a sense, our last, best bid for immortality.

  • Heracles goes on his twelve labours, not to better mankind, but to achieve immortality and atone for his own sins.

  • Did the screenwriters know they were dancing with immortality when they wrote these lines?

  • This family of doctrines held that human beings had the potential to attain immortality through their own agency.

  • At the age of 9, Daniel Radcliffe was catapulted towards Harry Potter and Hollywood immortality by a single, instinctive wink.

  • But, no matter how the Court decides, McCutcheon has already secured a certain share of immortality.

  • In a paroxysm of rage and fear, he gave the final order, and the Well of Cawnpore thereby attained its ghastly immortality.

  • Personal immortality is only to be desired if it insures the lifting of our faculties to their highest power of expression.

  • By a noble metaphor, says Milman, the day of their death was considered that of their birth to immortality.

  • The insatiable thirst for that which is beyond and which veils life, is the most lively proof of our immortality.

  • She had not been endowed with the privilege of immortality with which God had invested our first parents in paradise.