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单词 relentless
释义
relentless
(rɪlentləs )
1. adjective
Something bad that is relentless never stops or never becomes less intense.
The pressure now was relentless.
Synonyms: unremitting, sustained, punishing, persistent  
relentlessly adverb
The sun is beating down relentlessly.
2. adjective
Someone who is relentless is determined to do something and refuses to give up, even if what they are doing is unpleasant or cruel.
Relentless in his pursuit of quality, his technical ability was remarkable.
He was the most relentless enemy I have ever known.
Synonyms: merciless, hard, fierce, harsh  
relentlessly adverb
She always questioned me relentlessly.
Collocations:
relentless cycle
Joy to despair, dismay to elation, a relentless cycle of glorious inconsistency that somehow grinds down the soul while inflating the heart.
Times, Sunday Times
Her schedule combines the relentless cycle of shows with an almost perpetual world tour.
Times, Sunday Times
Why this relentless cycle, you may ask?
Times, Sunday Times
It's a relentless cycle of feeds, burps, changes, sleeps - in-between putting washes on and trying to occasionally eat and have a short kip yourself.
The Sun
relentless demand
There's a limit to how much working smarter can solve the relentless demand for our service.
Times, Sunday Times
Many students buckle under the relentless demand to complete coursework assignments.
Times, Sunday Times
And he knows past successes soon count for nothing in a sport driven by a relentless demand for success.
The Sun
He faded in the second half, when the relentless demands of a game at this level finally got the better of his fitness.
The Sun
She saw it as a necessary tool for managing the relentless demands of life.
Times, Sunday Times
relentless drive
In humanity's relentless drive for convenience and economic growth, we have developed a dangerous dependency on networked systems in less than two decades.
Times, Sunday Times
Some accomplish such transformation by something that seems like luck, others through raw ambition and relentless drive.
Christianity Today
His brooding intelligence, his inability to make a decision, his relentless drive, his attachment to a closed clique.
Times, Sunday Times
However, they require ruthless prioritising, relentless drive and attention to detail.
Times, Sunday Times
We get caught up with the relentless drive to buy bigger and bigger houses as our pay packets and families expand.
Times, Sunday Times
relentless energy
As such, he applied relentless energy to networking and fundraising, resulting in a series of big donations.
Times, Sunday Times
Still, the industry remains his consummate love, the wellspring of his placid yet relentless energy.
Times, Sunday Times
Success did not come without hard work and relentless energy, which took its toll.
Times, Sunday Times
Steadily working towards his vision of what he calls 'proper tourism' for more than 20 years, he displays relentless energy.
Times, Sunday Times
I had come to this city of relentless energy in search of peace.
Times, Sunday Times
relentless expansion
He describes the true cost of its low prices and relentless expansion.
Times, Sunday Times
Relentless expansion has seen the corporation now with 20,000 people on the payroll and revenues of more than 5bn.
Times, Sunday Times
The supermarket said that it had nothing to fear from the commission, claiming that its relentless expansion was good for consumer choice.
Times, Sunday Times
Politicians have pursued an agenda of relentless expansion, no matter what the cost or the impact on quality.
Times, Sunday Times
Voters want him to reverse the relentless expansion of surveillance and intimidation of mostly law-abiding citizens by unelected authorities.
The Sun
relentless rain
On the face of it, grey skies, relentless rain and driving wind hardly have any redeeming features.
Times, Sunday Times
As the builders excavated for our garage, relentless rain filled the hole and work ground to a halt.
Times, Sunday Times
Relentless rain caused them to be 'thoroughly miserable and fed up, like the rest of us', say keepers.
The Sun
After a month of relentless rain and widespread flooding, the latter's observations make illuminating reading.
Times, Sunday Times
The king tide, boosted by the relentless rain, was five-star theatre as viewed from the safety of our living room.
Times,Sunday Times
relentless rise
There was a relentless rise in sales until 1948, and a steady fall ever since.
Times, Sunday Times
Hospital chiefs blamed a relentless rise in sick patients, with a record 80,000 needing emergency admission last year.
Times, Sunday Times
I suspect it was an accident caused by the relentless rise in rail fares.
The Sun
The relentless rise of cyber shopping has been dealt a blow by a very realworld phenomenon: bad weather.
Times, Sunday Times
His time as chief executive has seen profits badly hit by the relentless rise of digital downloading.
The Sun
relentless schedule
Filming involved a relentless schedule: five shows a day for nine weeks at a time.
Times, Sunday Times
This week he had been due to present two fashion shows in a relentless schedule of collections.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite a relentless schedule, he remains unfailingly funny and sweetnatured.
Times, Sunday Times
Given his relentless schedule, it's perhaps understandable he's 'forever' single, as he puts it, although that's as much to do with him being picky as anything else.
The Sun
The only surprise, apart from the relentless schedule of travelling, has been everyone else's surprise at his success.
Times, Sunday Times
relentless scrutiny
If you suspect their every move and try to control every minute of their day, they can be worn down by the relentless scrutiny.
The Sun
Implicitly, it questioned the decades of relentless scrutiny of female athletes, especially the most successful ones.
Times, Sunday Times
He will be placed under relentless scrutiny.
Times, Sunday Times
Such a campaigning stance has left him open to relentless scrutiny.
Times, Sunday Times
It expects to maintain 'top secret' privacy settings for its own corporate activities while we mere mortals disclose every aspect of our lives to its relentless scrutiny.
Times, Sunday Times
relentless search
He would aim for specific bricks, then specific corners of bricks, in his relentless search for precision.
Times, Sunday Times
The game becomes a relentless search for orbs hidden in the most devilish places.
The Sun
Too much training can be a bad thing in pop, as character can be removed in the relentless search for the radio-friendly hit.
Times, Sunday Times
It showed thoughtful and intelligent preparation, it showed a culture of hard-training and the relentless search for excellence.
Times, Sunday Times
Their relentless search for growth and doughty perseverance saw them through some difficult times and in 1972 the enterprise turned into a limited company.
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relentless stream of
Rather than face an opponent who will pause for several seconds after grabbing you, you are now subjected to a relentless stream of attacks.
The Sun
With a brilliance of control that may or not be computerised, he can make a relentless stream of notes describe strong forms or solidify into powerful harmony.
Times, Sunday Times
The internet, he said, has degenerated into a 'baffling ordeal' of pop-up windows, sneaky tracking software and a relentless stream of unwanted ads.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 毫不留情的
Japanese: 情け容赦なく続く
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