- 1沒完沒了的；永無止境的
Never-ending describes something that seems to go on for a very long time, as if it will not stop. We say a never-ending queue, never-ending rain, a never-ending list of jobs. Though actually, it is often a feeling, not a cold fact: the queue will end, but it does not feel that way while you wait. People use it a lot in everyday talk, a little loosely, to complain or to joke. It is not a hard scientific word. You will usually see it with a (never-ending); that is the form dictionaries like.
never-ending 用來形容好像會一直持續、永遠不停的事情。它的固定寫法是「a never-ending ＿＿」，例如「a never-ending queue」（沒完沒了的隊伍）、「never-ending rain」（下個不停的雨），或是「a never-ending list of jobs」（做不完的工作清單）。
這個詞有時更像一種感覺，而不是客觀的事實。隊伍最後一定會排完，但在你排隊的時候，就是覺得它沒有盡頭。日常說話時，人們常常用得比較隨意，拿來抱怨或開玩笑，它不是正式的科學用語。這個字通常會寫成帶連字號的 never-ending，詞典也是這樣收的。
From the word’s history
From never + ending.
由 never 加 ending 組成。
組成From never + ending: ‘not at any time’ + ‘coming to a close’.
原始詞典資料1 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。
never-endingadj
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Having no end or being endless.
- The story of upkeep has been never-ending. Between 1997-2000, a major programme of maintenance entailed replacing superstructure timbers - 50 main rail beams were replaced with greenheart, along with a similar number of edge beams.
- But fans’ emotions are no longer filtered through ticket or album sales; they’re heard directly, constantly, at all hours, on all the platforms people visit to generate and extinguish bad feelings in a never-ending cycle.
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。