| 单词 | endless |
| 释义 | endless (once / 290 pages) adj Things that are endless go on forever, or at least appear to. The ocean looks endless when you sail out of sight of the shore. Endless things are infinite — your love for someone might be endless, and the mathematical symbol of infinity represents an endless number. You're most likely to use this adjective to describe things that only seem to last forever, like an endless meeting at work or an endless commute during rush hour. The Old English root of endless is endeleas, "boundless or eternal." WORD FAMILYendless: endlessly, endlessness+/end: ended, ending, endless, ends/ended: endedly, unended/ending: endings, unending/unending: unendingly USAGE EXAMPLESBut Watson, who is often reluctant to change equipment, is not your typical player who endures endless hours of product testing. Golf Digest(Jan 02, 2017) “America is a great nation, a kind nation, a nation of greener pastures and milk and honey and endless possibilities,” Mr. Canunayon said. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Sure, the practicalities are hideous – no cabs, endless crowds and queues, quite a lot of mugging – but still! The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1adj having no known beginning and presumably no end time is endless Syn dateless, sempiternal infinite having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude 2adj infinitely great in number endless waves Syn infinite having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude 3adj having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole an endless chain Syn continuous, uninterrupted continuing in time or space without interruption 4adj tiresomely long; seemingly without end endless debates an endless conversation Syn eternal, interminable long primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified |
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