| 单词 | immortal |
| 释义 | immortal (ɪmɔːʳtəl ) Word forms: immortals 1. adjective Someone or something that is immortal is famous and likely to be remembered for a long time. ...the immortal Reverend Dr Spooner. ...Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's immortal love story. Maybe my work is not immortal, but it will live for a while. Synonyms: timeless, eternal, everlasting, lasting An immortal is someone who is immortal. He called Moore 'one of the immortals of soccer'. [+ of] immortality (ɪmɔːʳtælɪti ) uncountable noun Some people want to achieve immortality through their works. Synonyms: fame, glory, celebrity, greatness 2. adjective Someone or something that is immortal will live or last for ever and never die or be destroyed. The pharaohs were considered gods and therefore immortal. Synonyms: undying, eternal, perpetual, indestructible An immortal is an immortal being. ...porcelain figurines of the Chinese immortals. immortality uncountable noun The Greeks accepted belief in the immortality of the soul. [+ of] Synonyms: eternity, perpetuity, everlasting life, timelessness 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] If you refer to someone's immortal words, you mean that what they said is well-known, and you are usually about to quote it. ...Roosevelt's immortal words, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Collocations: immortal soul Or are we back to a trembling immortal soul? The Times Literary Supplement They are the closest we demonstrably have to an immortal soul. Times, Sunday Times As part of the film's mythology, merpeople are said to live for hundreds of years, but do not have an immortal soul. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Humans are superior because humans have an immortal soul. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Fire consumed his body, his immortal soul remained in peaceful joy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Those immortal words, which have been uttered by anyone who has ever followed a trend, are pretty much inescapable. The Sun And the film contains the immortal words that sum up every politician who has ever ruthlessly eliminated a rival. Times, Sunday Times Hear the immortal words of the astronauts as they take the first tentative steps on the moon's surface. The Sun Immortal words, then and now. Times, Sunday Times And that means the deputy prime minister taking, in the immortal words of last week, a 'hands-on approach' to running the country. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 不朽的 Japanese: 不朽の人や作品が |
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