喜樂美語
  1. 1永恆的

    Eternal means lasting forever, with no end. It's used seriously for things like eternal life or eternal love, and also a little jokingly for things that just feel like they'll never end, like an 'eternal wait' at the doctor's office.

From the word’s history

From Old French eternal, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus 'eternal', from aevum 'age'.

經古法文，源自拉丁文 aeternus「永恆的」，來自 aevum「時代」。

Wiktionary

組成From a Latin word 'aeternus,' meaning something like 'lasting for an age.' Add -al and you get an adjective.

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

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eternaladj/ɪˈtɜː.nl̩/

  • 1

    Lasting forever; unending.

    • But here again it is another question, quite different from our having an idea of eternity, to know whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.
    • Thy smoking altar shall be fat with food / Of incense and the grateful steam of blood; / Burnt-offerings morn and evening shall be thine, / And fires eternal in thy temple shine.
  • 2

    human-sciencesphilosophysciencesExisting outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly.

  • 3

    Constant; perpetual; ceaseless; ever-present.

    • Beneath him you might have seen the three of us - myself, sunburnt, young, and vigorous after our open-air tramp; Summerlee, solemn but still critical, behind his eternal pipe; Lord John, as keen as a razor-edge, with his supple, alert figure leaning upon his rifle, and his eager eyes fixed eagerly upon the speaker.
  • 4

    datedExceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.

    • some eternal villain

eternalnoun/ɪˈtɜː.nl̩/

  • 1

    One who lives forever; an immortal.

    • Yes, I want that raw power that is only offered to the eternals or creators

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。