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All the time, without stopping, again and again - describing something that keeps happening or keeps being true, often in a way that feels or never-ending. 'He is perpetually late' means he is late every single time, not just once. It is a formal word; in casual talk people would usually say 'always' or 'constantly' instead.
持續不斷地；老是
組成perpetual + ly. 'Perpetual' means 'never stopping,' and '-ly' turns it into a word describing how something happens.
同家族的字
- perpetualthe base word this comes from, meaning 'never stopping'
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
perpetuallyadv/pəˈpɛtʃʊəli/
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Seeming to never end; endlessly; constantly.
- For whiche offence oure holy fader the pope enioyned hym to make hym to be prayed for perpetually / ⁊ lyke as he had done too be taken frome hym his naturall lyfe therfore he ſholde do foũde four tapers to brẽne perpetually about his body yͭ for yͤ extynccõn of his bodely lyf his ſoule may euer be remẽbred ⁊ lyf in heuẽ in ſpyrytuall lyfe
- Now her work dropped on her knee, and her book fell from her hand; she was perpetually seeking excuses for change of place; and the change brought added discomfort.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。