sempiternal
形容词 adj.
英 /ˌsɛm.pɪˈtɜː.nəl/
美 /ˌsɛm.pɪˈtɝ.nəl/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Everlasting, eternal.
— The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Having infinite temporal duration, rather than outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether; everlasting.
词汇关系
词源
From Old French sempiternel, from Medieval Latin sempiternālis, from Latin sempiternus, a contraction of semperæternus, from semper (“always”) + æternus (“eternal”).
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