- 1最終的、最後的（不是「可能的」）
Eventual means: this is what happens at the end, after a long wait or after many other things have already happened. The eventual winner of a long race is the person who is in front when it is finally over — they may not have been first the whole time. Your eventual job might be quite different from the job you wanted at eighteen. The word looks at the finish, not at the middle. It is a calm, slightly formal adjective; you meet it in news and school writing. There is a trap. In French, German, Spanish and several other languages, a cousin of this word means possible or maybe — something that might happen. English eventual does not mean that. If you want possible, say possible. If you want in the end, eventual is the word. The adverb is eventually: in the end, after some time.
組成From event + -ual; compare French éventuel. In several European languages the cousin word means possible, and that has coloured some uses — but the English adjective here means coming at the end.
同家族的字
- eventfrom event + -ual
- eventuallythe adverb: in the end
- eventualitya thing that might happen, from the same family
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
eventualadj/ɪˈvɛn.(t)ʃʊ.əl/
- 1
Finally resulting or occurring (after a period of time); inevitable.
- 2
Pertaining to events; event-related, evential.
- 3
Possible, potential.
- They both opposed an eventual imposition of anti-dumping measures as they considered that it could lead to a cessation of imports of the product concerned from the PRC79.
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。