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perpetually

/per-pech-oo-uh-lee/US // pərˈpɛtʃ u ə li //

永恒地,永恒的,永恒,永续

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : forever or for an indefinitely long time: It is best to think of any software licensed in this way as perpetually licensed.We seem to be locked perpetually in the past.
    • : without intermission or interruption; continually: The library received five more laptops to relieve the pressure on their perpetually busy media loan desk.
    • : with continued recurrence; regularly or repeatedly: The city’s public schools, particularly in working-class neighborhoods, are perpetually understaffed. I'm the girl who loses pens constantly, forgets about quizzes in math, and is perpetually late.

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Examples

  • Almost no one, to my ear, charts the perpetually shifting moods and meanings of the interior psychic landscape as sensitively, or as beautifully, as he does.

  • Along the bottom of the screen, it perpetually runs an election results tracker.

  • As Miles bops down the street listening to music, he is perpetually on the lookout to deliver a kind word or a helping hand to his fellow New Yorkers.

  • When one party is perpetually dominant, the subordinate party has reason to cooperate, as that’s the only realistic shot at wielding power.

  • All the adults around me seemed to be perpetually trying to lose a few pounds by going on the Atkins Diet or re-enrolling in Weight Watchers.

  • Brash, crass, and sporting a perpetually raised eyebrow, Ash Williams remains the ultimate postmodern superhero.

  • It finally looks like New York, which is perpetually addled by traffic, will be constructing a new expressway.

  • For the entire duration of the hours I spent inside San Pedro I noticed my abdominal muscles remained perpetually clenched.

  • Then, she was always posing in slow-motion, as if perpetually taking mental selfies.

  • And he has remained perpetually ready for whatever else might arise, keeping his truck as sparkling as his persona.

  • I slept some hours, but was perpetually disturbed with dreams of the place I had left, and the dangers I had escaped.

  • Labor, so it was argued, was perpetually being saved by the constant introduction of new uses of machinery.

  • At the base of the statue to "Memory" is a gas-fed torch, called the "Torch of Liberty," which burns perpetually.

  • She was not, however, allowed to wash her hands of them, for her brother sang their praises perpetually.

  • Naturally the sumptuary laws about the wearing of fur were perpetually infringed upon, to the great satisfaction of the furriers.