词语释义

英 [ɪ'tɜːn(ə)l; iː-] 美 [ɪ'tɝnl]

adj. 永恒的；不朽的

单词分析：

记忆方法：1. eternal fire 长明灯(坟前的灯).

英英释义

Adjective:

continuing forever or indefinitely;"the ageless themes of love and revenge"
"eternal truths"
"life everlasting"
"hell"s perpetual fires"
"the unending bliss of heaven"

tiresomely long; seemingly without end;"endless debates"
"an endless conversation"
"the wait seemed eternal"
"eternal quarreling"
"an interminable sermon"

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单词词源

中文词源

eternal 永久的

来自拉丁语aeviternus, 永久，永恒。来自词根ev, 长久，时期，词源同eon, longevity.

英语词源

eternal

eternal: [14] Something that is eternal lasts literally for ‘aeons’. The word comes via Old French eternal from aeternālis, a late Latin development of the Latin adjective aeternus ‘eternal’. This in turn was a derivative of aevum ‘age’ (which crops up in English medieval, primeval, etc), a relative of Greek aión ‘age’ (from which English gets aeon) and archaic English aye ‘ever’.
=> aeon, aye, ever

eternal (adj.)

late 14c., from Old French eternel "eternal," or directly from Late Latin aeternalis, from Latin aeternus "of an age, lasting, enduring, permanent, everlasting, endless," contraction of aeviternus "of great age," from aevum "age" (see eon). Used since Middle English both of things or conditions without beginning or end and things with a beginning only but no end. A parallel form, Middle English eterne, is from Old French eterne (cognate with Spanish eterno), directly from Latin aeternus. Related: Eternally. The Eternal (n.) for "God" is attested from 1580s.

词态变化

副词 eternally;

权威造句

1. The series chronicles the everyday adventures of two eternal bachelors.

这个系列剧按照时间顺序记述了两个老光棍每天的奇遇。

来自柯林斯例句

2. In the background was that eternal hum.

背景音是没完没了的嗡嗡声。

来自柯林斯例句

3. the promise of eternal life in heaven

在天国永生的许诺

来自《权威词典》

4. the eternal verities of life

生命永恒的真理

来自《权威词典》

5. The principles of the Paris Commune radiates with eternal light.

巴黎公社的原则闪耀着不灭的光辉.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

近反义词

eternal triangle 三角恋爱

eternal verity 基本道德准则...

eternal sleep 长眠

eternal wound 爱情的创伤

the eternal feminine 永恒的女性

eternal night 长眠,死

the eternal life 来生

Eternal City 不朽之城

be called to one's eternal rest 死

the Eternal 不朽之物; 上帝...

eternal frost 永冻层

eternal life [宗]来世

eternal law 永恒法

eternal frost climate 永冻气候

相似短语

life eternal phr. 永生

Eternal City 永恒的城市，罗马

eternal rest phr. 长逝；成佛

eternal wound 爱情的创伤,爱情

eternal fire 长明灯

eternal verity (常用复数)基本道德准则

eternal regret 遗恨

eternal damnation phr. 永恒的诅咒

eternal city phr. 永恒之城；不朽之城（罗马城的别称）

eternal sleep phr. 长眠，死亡