基本释义
adj. 冗长的;无止尽的
星级词汇
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英文词源
interminable 冗长的
in-,不,非,terminable,终结的,终止的。
深度学习
interminable (in TERM in uh bul) Literally meaning “not able to end,” this adjective is chiefly used to describe something tedious, a situation you wish would end.
- During the seemingly interminable lecture on Habits of Twelfth-Century Monks, Dustin contemplated the state of his fingernails and mentally made a list of girls he’d had a crush on.
- Rosetta endured her mother’s interminable questions about her where-abouts and her companions only by thinking of how soon college life would prevent these inquisitions.
——摘自《Fiske WordPower: The Most Effective System for Building a Vocabulary That Gets Results Fast》
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无休止的(在uh-bul的TERM中)字面意思是“无法结束”,这个形容词主要用来描述一些乏味的事情,一种你希望结束的情况。
在关于《十二世纪僧侣的习惯》的看似无休止的讲座中,达斯汀仔细考虑了自己指甲的状态,并在脑海中列出了他暗恋过的女孩的名单。
罗塞塔忍受了母亲没完没了的关于她在哪里以及她的同伴的问题,只是想到大学生活多久才能阻止这些调查。
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