| 单词 | inveterate |
| 释义 | in·vet·er·ate I. 1. archaic < felt inveterate against him — Charles Dickens > 2. a. < inveterate bursitis > b. < inveterate tendency to naturalize foreign words — George Woodcock > < supported by precedent so inveterate that the chance of abandonment is small — B.N.Cardozo > < inveterate and skillful biographer — Marvin Lowenthal > c. < inveterate prejudice > < his inveterate demand for the imposition of a severe discipline — C.I.Glicksberg > d. < the inveterate smell of ether in a hospital > 3. obsolete < rotten wood … taken out of an inveterate willow tree — John Evelyn > 4. < inveterate sightseers — Astrid Peters > < an inveterate love of alcohol — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > < the punishment for inveterate idleness was a whipping on the bare back — W.E.Woodward > Synonyms: < Frenchmen do not crave a master … the average Frenchman is probably the world's most inveterate individualist — Christian Century > < inveterate habits of animistic thinking — Lewis Mumford > < the inveterate hostility of “creative” writers to criticism — P.E.More > chronic implies long continuation or frequent recurrence of a usually detrimental condition or trait but lacks the suggestion of determination that may accompany inveterate < his chronic state of mental restlessness — George Eliot > < envy and rebellion and class resentments are chronic moral diseases with us — G.B.Shaw > < the total lack of adequate means of transportation rendered the problem of a grain market a chronic difficulty to the frontier farmers — V.L.Parrington > confirmed suggests a pattern that has become fixed by habit or usage < I am a confirmed wanderer — Isaac D'Israeli > < a confirmed bachelor > < his intense egoism rendered him impatient of all reproof or instruction and … he soon became a victim of confirmed mannerisms — Nation > deep-rooted and deep-seated in general refer to qualities so deeply engrained that they have become part of the core of personal character, or to conditions of deep significance and lasting endurance < Lincoln had a deep-rooted aversion to slavery > < the deep-rooted causes of Indian discontent — Current History > < the conviction of Thomas Aquinas, that between true science and true religion there can be no contradiction, is exceedingly deep-seated — J.H.Randall > < deep-seated sources of cultural antipathy between Asia and the U.S. — M.W.Straight > II. archaic |
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