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Going on and on without ever stopping. It describes something continuous over a long stretch of time — unceasing rain, unceasing noise from the construction site, unceasing effort, her unceasing support for her students. It sits before a noun almost always; you would not normally say "the rain was unceasing" in speech, though a novelist might. This is a formal, written word. In conversation people say non-stop, constant, or endless. Save unceasing for writing where you want a slow, weighty sound. The tone is worth noticing because it goes both ways. With unpleasant things — noise, rain, complaints, pain — it means wearing, too much, please stop. With good things — effort, kindness, devotion, support — it becomes praise, and it carries a faint echo of religious and old literary English, where unceasing prayer is a set phrase. So the word itself is neutral; the noun beside it decides the feeling. Compare it with ceaseless, which means the same thing and is more common in modern writing, and with incessant, which is nearly always negative and usually describes sound or talk.
不停的、持續不斷的(書面語;日常口語多用 non-stop 或 constant)。
組成un- + ceasing. Here un- is the "not" un- (as in unhappy), not the reversing one. Ceasing comes from the verb cease, meaning to stop — a formal word borrowed from French. So: not stopping.
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- ceasethe verb inside it: to stop
- ceaselessthe same cease with a different ending, same meaning as unceasing
- unceasinglythe adverb built on this word
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。
unceasingadj
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continuous; continuing indefinitely without stopping
- The unceasing fatigue of my daily walks to and from Clapham, with my various trudgings from one Doctor Humbug to another Doctor Whimsical, combined with the before-mentioned causes to affect my health.
- To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks.
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。