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never-never

/nev-er-nev-er/US // ˈnɛv ərˈnɛv ər //UK // informal //

从来没有,从来不是,从来不会,永不

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : never-never land.
    • : British Slang. hire-purchase system.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not real or true; imaginary or ideal; illusory: the never-never world of the cinema.

Examples

  • The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.

  • He looks like a man who should have had kids, but now never will.

  • In an email exchange a friend said many had repeated this same succinct review but they could never elaborate.

  • Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.

  • For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.

  • Bessires was included because he would never win it at any later date, but his doglike devotion made him a priceless subordinate.

  • Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.

  • Arches more graceful in form, or better fitted to defy the assaults of time, I have never seen.

  • The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.

  • The King of Delhi had a hunting-lodge somewhere in the locality, but he had never seen the place.