| 单词 | abiding |
| 释义 | abiding (once / 1491 pages) adj Something abiding sticks around, lasting a long time. Abiding is usually used with feelings and memories — as in your abiding love for Elmo. Abiding comes from the Old English abidan, gebidan meaning "remain, wait, delay, remain behind." It's a word that's typically used to describe a feeling or memory that remains behind or lingers in your mind a while. You can have an abiding faith in God, or an abiding respect for war veterans or an abiding passion. "Law-abiding citizens" are those people who stick strictly to the law. They always use the crosswalk and pay their taxes on time. WORD FAMILYabiding: abidingly+/abide: abidance, abided, abides, abiding USAGE EXAMPLESPlayers, abiding by their religious tenets, use the sport as an outlet between long hours spent studying Judaic texts and other subjects. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) It’s one of the abiding seasonal traditions that a manager will play an unrecognisable team in the second festive fixture. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) But the military denied this and accused the opposition of aiming to show it was not abiding by the truce. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) adj unceasing an abiding belief Syn enduring, imperishable lasting, permanent continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place |
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