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单词 indefinitely
释义
indefinitelyin‧def‧i‧nit‧ely /ɪnˈdefənətli/ ●○○ AWL adverb Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Pete Rose was barred indefinitely from baseball in 1989 for gambling.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But unlike the cannon, it can maintain those conditions indefinitely.
  • Leith afterwards supposed she should have realised that that state of affairs could not go on indefinitely without some one getting hurt.
  • She probably hoped their threesome could go on indefinitely.
  • That wretched old ben Issachar did the cruellest thing possible to Anya - he put her, indefinitely, on hold.
  • They simply run on indefinitely without ever stopping.
  • This could not support weak currencies indefinitely.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 His trial has been postponed indefinitely (=no one knows when it will happen).
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
· Also, be aware that this happy state of reward for only relative virtue will not continue indefinitely.· Traders pointed to the federal budget stalemate and worries the gridlock could continue indefinitely.· Here the long-term player's type is revealed when play continues indefinitely.· Neither trend can continue indefinitely, he said.· Some economists fear that this trend will continue indefinitely.· The grandchildren would also resemble their common ancestor-and one readily believes that this continues indefinitely.· And so the process continues indefinitely.· Loretta Sanchez of Garden Grove will continue indefinitely after Democrats lost a bid to halt it next week.
· It has now been established that in cases where the Gateway has been totally excised, this condition may be extended indefinitely.· For the same reason, Democrats wanted the deadline extended indefinitely.· But as soon as it was repeated, its individuality merged into a series extending indefinitely into the future.
· Such a blueprint could not help but postpone indefinitely important questions facing the integrative bodies already in existence.· A referendum to determine the future of the island has been postponed indefinitely.· Now it seemed as if they were postponed indefinitely.· However, the trial has been postponed indefinitely.· On Dec. 13 Landsbergis had announced that a further round of preliminary consultations had been postponed indefinitely by the Soviet side.· No doubt this explains why elections there have been postponed indefinitely.
· She was suspended indefinitely, leaving it open for her to practise again if an appeal succeeds.· But equally we can not, should not and will not indefinitely suspend the democratic process.· On May 16 the trial was suspended indefinitely because of demonstrations taking place outside the courthouse.
Word family
WORD FAMILYadjectivedefiniteindefiniteadverbdefinitelyindefinitely
1for a period of time for which no definite end has been arranged:  The project has been postponed indefinitely.2without giving clear or exact details
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