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单词 perpetuate
释义

Definition of perpetuate in English:

perpetuate

verb pəˈpɛtʃʊeɪtpərˈpɛtʃəˌweɪt
[with object]
  • Make (something) continue indefinitely.

    the confusion was perpetuated through inadvertence
    a monument to perpetuate the memory of those killed in the war
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was on this sleepy island that the Dutch settled in 1609 and built a fort to perpetuate their memory.
    • In spite of near-constant challenges to their survival, tortoises must nonetheless attend to the task of perpetuating the species.
    • It depends on, and perpetuates, an eighteenth-century liberal ideal of autonomy, individualism and unencumbered choice.
    • The people profiteering off of the growth perpetuate the problem and have a human obligation to correct the problems.
    • It assumes that changes are needed in the economic systems and structures that perpetuate inequality and injustice.
    • For protesters the present arrangement perpetuates gross global inequity, made worse by rampant globalization.
    • Some of those monuments are almost a century old and were erected to perpetuate a memory and a spirit dear to surviving family members.
    • The financial oligarchy wants the war to continue to perpetuate their global wealth.
    • The fake images that concern us most are those that are created to perpetuate a lie.
    • Every year, parents continue to perpetuate the myth of Santa Claus.
    • The effect of its rate rise will be to perpetuate global economic imbalances.
    • My question for Rosanne is what should we be doing to remember him, to perpetuate his memory?
    • Very few recognise the services of such freedom fighters or make efforts to perpetuate their memory.
    • These systems are as useless today as the bureaucratic institutions that continue to perpetuate and promote their usage.
    • Quebecers just don't want to swap their groovy ways to perpetuate the species.
    • It's not just because a certain pool of skilled practitioners must be sustained to perpetuate our craft.
    • The point in perpetuating a person's memory is that he or she might otherwise be forgotten.
    • He also continues to attempt to perpetuate those lies, but the public is beginning to wake up.
    • The Mohegans are also invested in preserving and perpetuating their culture.
    • Their memory was perpetuated in later centuries by antiquarians such as Joseph Strutt, whose Sports and Pastimes of England was published in 1801.
    • The error in the second model is that the present situation need not perpetuate itself.
    • The media has perpetuated four big lies in relation to this event.
    • The book contains unsubstantiated statements perpetuating old myths and creating confusion.
    • Building a theatre is not the easiest way of perpetuating your father's memory.
    • It fittingly perpetuates his memory as one who lived an unassuming honourable life and bequeathed the whole of his residuary estate to charity.
    • These conditions destroy human dignity and perpetuate poverty.
    • It has become a place that perpetuates and nourishes the precincts of power and violence.
    • She couldn't let him keep perpetuating that process.
    • You are the last woman on earth, and it is your job to perpetuate the human race, whether you like it or not.
    • The effigies of antiquity were created to perpetuate the memory of the deceased as he or she looked while alive.
    • Doing that simply legitimises and perpetuates continuing oppression.
    • In this way we often perpetuate self-defeating subliminal beliefs.
    • The two men are understandably disgruntled and fault the shelters for perpetuating what they see as a system of control.
    • Indeed inheritance under the current system only serves to perpetuate inequality.
    Synonyms
    keep alive, keep going, keep in existence, preserve, conserve, sustain, maintain, continue, extend, carry on, keep up, cause to continue, prolong
    immortalize, commemorate, memorialize, eternalize
    literary eternize

Usage

On the difference between perpetuate and perpetrate, see perpetrate

Derivatives

  • perpetuance

  • noun
  • perpetuator

  • noun pəˈpɛtjʊeɪtəpərˈpɛtʃəˌweɪdər
    • Moreover, the Bolsheviks, in continuing to see law principally as a means of defending the state, unconsciously served as perpetuators of Russian tradition.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her production pinpoints the role of women as both products and perpetuators of the loyalist ethos with clinical accuracy.
      • The man is a professional perpetuator of the myth.
      • Why make a mockery of a real problem by inviting its perpetuators to condemn it?
      • Partly taken in by this, partly its perpetuator, he embraced that myth to service his artistic aims.

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin perpetuat- 'made permanent', from the verb perpetuare, from perpetuus 'continuing throughout' (see perpetual).

 
 

Definition of perpetuate in US English:

perpetuate

verbpərˈpɛtʃəˌweɪtpərˈpeCHəˌwāt
[with object]
  • 1Make (something, typically an undesirable situation or an unfounded belief) continue indefinitely.

    the law perpetuated the interests of the ruling class
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The two men are understandably disgruntled and fault the shelters for perpetuating what they see as a system of control.
    • The error in the second model is that the present situation need not perpetuate itself.
    • These conditions destroy human dignity and perpetuate poverty.
    • Indeed inheritance under the current system only serves to perpetuate inequality.
    • He also continues to attempt to perpetuate those lies, but the public is beginning to wake up.
    • The book contains unsubstantiated statements perpetuating old myths and creating confusion.
    • The media has perpetuated four big lies in relation to this event.
    • The point in perpetuating a person's memory is that he or she might otherwise be forgotten.
    • The financial oligarchy wants the war to continue to perpetuate their global wealth.
    • It was on this sleepy island that the Dutch settled in 1609 and built a fort to perpetuate their memory.
    • She couldn't let him keep perpetuating that process.
    • In this way we often perpetuate self-defeating subliminal beliefs.
    • It has become a place that perpetuates and nourishes the precincts of power and violence.
    • The effect of its rate rise will be to perpetuate global economic imbalances.
    • The fake images that concern us most are those that are created to perpetuate a lie.
    • It fittingly perpetuates his memory as one who lived an unassuming honourable life and bequeathed the whole of his residuary estate to charity.
    • Building a theatre is not the easiest way of perpetuating your father's memory.
    • It depends on, and perpetuates, an eighteenth-century liberal ideal of autonomy, individualism and unencumbered choice.
    • The Mohegans are also invested in preserving and perpetuating their culture.
    • Very few recognise the services of such freedom fighters or make efforts to perpetuate their memory.
    • The effigies of antiquity were created to perpetuate the memory of the deceased as he or she looked while alive.
    • Their memory was perpetuated in later centuries by antiquarians such as Joseph Strutt, whose Sports and Pastimes of England was published in 1801.
    • Every year, parents continue to perpetuate the myth of Santa Claus.
    • Some of those monuments are almost a century old and were erected to perpetuate a memory and a spirit dear to surviving family members.
    • The people profiteering off of the growth perpetuate the problem and have a human obligation to correct the problems.
    • My question for Rosanne is what should we be doing to remember him, to perpetuate his memory?
    • You are the last woman on earth, and it is your job to perpetuate the human race, whether you like it or not.
    • These systems are as useless today as the bureaucratic institutions that continue to perpetuate and promote their usage.
    • Doing that simply legitimises and perpetuates continuing oppression.
    • It assumes that changes are needed in the economic systems and structures that perpetuate inequality and injustice.
    • Quebecers just don't want to swap their groovy ways to perpetuate the species.
    • In spite of near-constant challenges to their survival, tortoises must nonetheless attend to the task of perpetuating the species.
    • For protesters the present arrangement perpetuates gross global inequity, made worse by rampant globalization.
    • It's not just because a certain pool of skilled practitioners must be sustained to perpetuate our craft.
    Synonyms
    keep alive, keep going, keep in existence, preserve, conserve, sustain, maintain, continue, extend, carry on, keep up, cause to continue, prolong
    1. 1.1 Preserve (something valued) from oblivion or extinction.
      how did these first humans survive to perpetuate the species?

Usage

See perpetrate

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin perpetuat- ‘made permanent’, from the verb perpetuare, from perpetuus ‘continuing throughout’ (see perpetual).

 
 
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