- 1永久、永遠（合約、法律裡常說 in perpetuity「永久地」）
Perpetuity means time that does not stop — all future time. You almost always meet it in the little phrase in perpetuity: the land was given to the school in perpetuity, meaning for always, not for a few years and then back. Lawyers and people writing contracts love it, because it draws a hard line: this does not run out. In everyday talk, forever or for good is what most people say; perpetuity sounds like paperwork. Though actually, the law is not always as endless as the word hopes — there is a special legal fight about whether you may tie up property for all future time — but for a , the phrase in perpetuity is the one that matters.
組成From Middle English perpetuitee, from Old French, and ultimately from Latin perpetuitās — the state of lasting all the way through. The -ity ending marks a noun meaning "the state of being …".
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- perpetualthe everyday adjective: going on without a stop
- perpetuatethe verb: to make something last
- perpetuationthe noun: the act of making it last
原始詞典資料4 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。
perpetuitynoun/ˌpɜː(ɹ)pɪˈtjuːɪti/
- 1
The quality or state of being perpetual; endless duration; uninterrupted existence.
- Mr. Waller adds that when the railway was authorised in 1897, one of the clauses of the Act authorising the transfer of the line to the North British Railway provided that that company should work it in perpetuity, and it was this clause that caused the interim interdict to be granted.
- The gnomic belief that the world is conditioned by love is no idle apothegm. Love, as the instrument of creative agencies and cosmic perpetuity, is no banausic conception.
- 2
Something that is perpetual.
- 3
lawA limitation intended to be unalterable and of indefinite duration; a disposition of property which attempts to make it inalienable beyond certain limits fixed or conceived as being fixed by the general law.
- 4
businessfinanceAn annuity in which the periodic payments begin on a fixed date and continue indefinitely.
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