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interminably

/in-tur-muh-nuh-buhl/US // ɪnˈtɜr mə nə bəl //UK // (ɪnˈtɜːmɪnəbəl) //

无休止地,无休止的,不停地,不间断地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
    • : monotonously or annoyingly protracted or continued; unceasing; incessant: I can't stand that interminable clatter.
    • : having no limits: an interminable desert.

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Examples

  • Though we finally have vaccines, the wait to return to normalcy can feel interminable.

  • He knew the site represented glorious potential for skiing, but in talking later to a documentary filmmaker, he called it “quite an ordeal” in winter just to get skiers up the interminable road to where they could even start hiking.

  • The structure provides a new way of collapsing interminable terms into just dozens of essential components.

  • What should have been a 10-minute press conference went on interminably.

  • Up until five minutes ago, I felt like a cloistered nun interminably praying at a keyboard for words and sentences to materialize.

  • Then passed rafts of wood interminably long, and barges loaded to the gunwale, and nearly sinking under water.

  • Flanked by guards, they went down a corridor which stretched on interminably.

  • To till the soil and labour interminably with rude implements and utensils is all he asks of life and of the powers that be.

  • Beneath him were two irregular scratches against the dull green-brown of earth that stretched interminably north and south.

  • Anxiety had her in its grip, the cliffs stretching on and on interminably seemed like misfortune itself made visible.