| 单词 | eternal |
| 释义 | eternal (ɪtɜːʳnəl ) 1. adjective Something that is eternal lasts for ever. Whoever believes in Him shall have eternal life. ...the quest for eternal youth. Synonyms: everlasting, lasting, permanent, enduring eternally adverb [ADVERB adjective, ADVERB with verb] She is eternally grateful to her family for their support. The whole universe exists eternally in that one infinite being. Synonyms: continually, constantly, all the time, endlessly Synonyms: forever, always, for keeps, for all time 2. adjective If you describe something as eternal, you mean that it seems to last for ever, often because you think it is boring or annoying. In the background was that eternal hum. Synonyms: interminable, constant, endless, abiding 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Eternal truths, values, and questions never change and are believed to be always true and to be relevant in all situations. ...the eternal truths of the Indian subcontinent. ...the eternal question. Collocations: eternal cycle The eternal cycle of agony and ecstasy would see ecstasy prevailing. Times, Sunday Times Cruelty and redemption: sport's eternal cycle. Times, Sunday Times The exhibition was divided into five sections that visually depicted the eternal cycle of life, death, and regeneration. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They break out of eternal cycles and experiment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He noted the idea of unchanging world order consisting of the eternal cycles of rebirth, and the deprecation of mundane world. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And you can be a vessel prepared for judgment, prepared for wrath, prepared for eternal fire. Christianity Today The eternal fire was too strong for him. The Times Literary Supplement They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Only the priests are allowed to enter the sanctum sanctorum where the eternal fire burns. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They begin to feel eternal remorse for their crimes, their hearts burning with literal eternal fire. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If my ears are burning it's a worry, because there's probably enough wax in there to sustain an eternal flame. Times, Sunday Times It also provides endless opportunities for you and your eternal flame to relight that fire. Times, Sunday Times Any other nation would have marked the site with smart soldiers, monumental marble and an eternal flame. Times, Sunday Times The bronze brazier shape for the eternal flame was also replaced. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In front of the wall stands a torch with an eternal flame. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You have to be really desperate for some youthfully eternal glory to risk all that. Times, Sunday Times The difference between eternal glory and a lifetime of if-onlys often comes down to the narrowest of margins. Times, Sunday Times For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. Christianity Today It presented a view of danger, to produce alarm; of refuge to confer peace and joy; and of eternal glory, to animate hope. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Instead, thanks to mayor, he received the eternal glory of a city guard. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He should depart this summer with the supporters' eternal gratitude and reverence, leaving behind a sense of relief at the opportunity for a fresh start. Times, Sunday Times My soul will bear him an eternal gratitude. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His influence upon my spiritual life was profound... my soul will bear him eternal gratitude. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Society has us believe that if we keep moving ourselves up a ladder, we will reach a point of eternal happiness. Times, Sunday Times Bad clothes provide both celebrity and media with a narrative arc (terrible dresser discovers secret of style, weight loss and eternal happiness). Times, Sunday Times He was willing to act and in his action he received the highest good, his eternal happiness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are inevitably displayed by those who believe themselves in the possession of the secret of earthly or eternal happiness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She prays for eternal happiness and the next day an old peddler shows up selling plain things. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His eternal joy and happiness cannot be disturbed, but he's also not a disinterested observer of the human scene. Christianity Today The novel also expresses, in one character's dream, a society gaining eternal joy of an earthly kind. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was a megalomaniac who became obsessed with finding an elixir that would give him eternal life. Times, Sunday Times (2007) He discovers a lost tribe on an imaginary island who seem to have found the secret to eternal life. Times, Sunday Times (2015) And it had the secret of eternal life. Times, Sunday Times (2016) More than 40 years later she published extracts from his letters in which he vowed eternal love and devotion. Times, Sunday Times We don't feel bound together in the same bonds of eternal love and obligation. Christianity Today If you're bringing news of eternal love why be so veiled and tentative? Times, Sunday Times We paused at the spot where canoodling couples are often spotted sipping the water in the hope of eternal love. Times, Sunday Times Orange blossoms symbolize innocence, eternal love, marriage and fruitfulness. Houston Chronicle It represents eternal optimism, a desire to expand not just our knowledge but also our imaginations. Times, Sunday Times Was it eternal optimism that you could change things? The Sun The obituarist's reference to his infectious energy and eternal optimism ring true. Times, Sunday Times Get it right, though, and you'll experience a land of fabulous riches and desperate poverty, of failed ambitions and eternal optimism, of civilisation and often terrifying wildness. Times, Sunday Times He had an eternal optimism for what could be achieved in politics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In recent years this eternal optimist had become more and more concerned about the future of the nation he helped to build. Times, Sunday Times (2016) To him there is always a chance and he remains an eternal optimist. Times, Sunday Times (2007) My mother calls me the eternal optimist and that has stood me in good stead. Times, Sunday Times (2015) You're either a fool or an eternal optimist if you do. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Then again, he is an eternal optimist. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Three egregious sinners are singled out for eternal punishment, but the theological implications of the scene are unclear. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They incur both guilt for the sin, yielding eternal punishment, and temporal punishment for the sin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Penance was stressed as a means of saving oneself from eternal punishment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Before these monsters the hero's courage failed and by them was led away to eternal punishment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The issue was the problem of eternal punishment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I have a collection of these, in various sizes and with various different functions - symbols of my eternal quest to become more organised. Times, Sunday Times This leaves adults with an eternal quest of their own. Times, Sunday Times In their eternal quest for social stability, the authorities will be at pains to introduce everything smoothly. Times, Sunday Times He praises the inventive, human mind and its eternal quest to discover the universe and our place in it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Others understand it almost contractually, as a promise of eternal reward that cannot be revoked under any circumstances. Christianity Today Let those who have been serving as mercenaries for small pay now obtain the eternal reward. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At the same time, belief in human responsibility to do good as a precursor to salvation and eternal reward was consistent. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 No tiredness, no wavering concentration, adrenaline flowing as if from an eternal spring. Times, Sunday Times Fruit salad with condensed milk, granizado shakes, salpicon, and fresh fruit are also sold in the land of eternal spring. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While talking to him, she coos that he will find the eternal spring (the season). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 More than anything, his life stands as a metaphor for the eternal struggle between technology and some notion of purism. Times, Sunday Times Dualism sets up good and evil as equal and opposed forces, each with its leaders, rewarding its foot soldiers, locked in eternal struggle. Times, Sunday Times In the eternal struggle between beauty and comfort, comfort wins every time. Times, Sunday Times It was a world view at once prelapsarian and harsh, yearning for lost purity yet espousing eternal struggle. The Times Literary Supplement It provides a fantasy story about an eternal struggle between the powers of the darkness and the light. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Just as truth lies beyond the stage lights, eternal truth lies beyond the temporary horror of a totalitarian state. Christianity Today The research demonstrates the eternal truth that we treat others with the minimum respect that they're prepared to tolerate. Times, Sunday Times But the spring inside me that flows with eternal truth sometimes gets clogged with debris. Christianity Today Political analysts stated, as an eternal truth, that only the young were likely to offer dynamism and change. Times, Sunday Times It also deals with the eternal truth that nobody cares about returning soldiers after a war. Times, Sunday Times Well, that's interesting as a reflection of current mainstream tastes, but moot as a claim of eternal verity. Times, Sunday Times Although published in 1832, it contains an eternal verity. Times, Sunday Times These great questionings, the challenge to one eternal verity after another, shook their world and their way of life, and it was all tremendously exciting. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The eternal verities of rugby were distinctively absent or were in short supply. Times, Sunday Times Like many a cliché it combines eternal verities with several dollops of narrow thinking. Times,Sunday Times The lyrics attempt to equate the eternal vigilance of the internet censors with a 'ray of incorruptible sunlight'. Times, Sunday Times We are cast rather into the need for eternal vigilance, responding with variable tactics to the great variety of enemies. Christianity Today The price of being in that elite group was eternal vigilance. Times, Sunday Times It can be countered only by eternal vigilance. Times, Sunday Times It isn't democracy that needs 'eternal vigilance'. Times, Sunday Times As the years flow, we have eternal youth. The Sun Now along comes another promise of eternal youth: carboxytherapy. Times, Sunday Times We can't hold ourselves up to ideals of physical perfection and eternal youth. The Sun He claims to know the formula for eternal youth. The Sun The huge growth in cosmetic surgery has added new procedures that are arguably less about long-term health and more about the quest for eternal youth. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 永恒的 Japanese: 永遠の |
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