- 1持久的、長久的
Lasting means strong enough, or well enough made or planned, to go on for a very long time: a lasting peace, a lasting friendship, a lasting impression. The point is not “final” but “it keeps being true; it does not fade after a week.” You can say it of feelings, damage, habits, and things people build. It is a calm, slightly careful adjective — at home in news and school writing as well as talk. Though actually it comes from the verb last, “to continue,” not from last meaning “the one at the end.” A lasting effect is one that lasts; the last effect would be the final one. Students mix those two last-words constantly, and the spelling does not help.
From the word’s history
From the verb last 'to endure': Middle English lasten, from Old English lǣstan.
來自動詞 last「持續」；源自古英文 lǣstan。
組成From the verb last (to continue, to go on) + -ing. Not from last meaning “final.”
同家族的字
- lastthe verb last, “to continue” — a lasting peace is a peace that lasts
原始詞典資料6 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。
lastingadj/ˈlɑːstɪŋ/
- 1
Persisting for an extended period of time.
- After World War I it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn’t.
- I was taken to the theatre for the first time when I was six years old, and the experience made a lasting impression on me.
- 2
obsoletePersisting forever.
- I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.
- Things that are first must give place, but things that are last, are lasting.
lastingnoun/ˈlɑːstɪŋ/
- 1
historicalbusinessclothingfashionIn full lasting cloth: a durable, plain woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes.
- 2
The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
- 3
obsoleteThe action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.
- 1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334, But all things that haue beginning, must come to an end, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change, according to the time appointed vnto it by the course of Nature, as is seene by experience in plants, and in wights, which haue their ages and lastings certaine and determined.
- […] it may be some kinde of Prophecy, of the continuance, and lasting of these Letters, that having been scattered, more then Sibyls leaves, I cannot say into parts, but corners of the World, they have recollected and united themselves […]
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