perpetuate
英[pə'petʃʊeɪt;-tjʊ-]
美[pɚ'pɛtʃuet]
- vt. 使不朽；保持
- adj. 长存的
词态变化
第三人称单数: perpetuates;过去式: perpetuated;过去分词: perpetuated;现在分词: perpetuating;名词: perpetuation;
中文词源
perpetuate 持续，坚持
per-,完全的，-pet,寻求，追寻，词源同compete,petition.引申词义持续，坚持。
英文词源
- perpetuate (v.)
- 1520s, a back-formation from perpetuation or else from Latin perpetuatus, past participle of perpetuare "to make perpetual," from perpetuus (see perpetual). Related: Perpetuated; Perpetuating.
双语例句
- 1. Jokes perpetuate various national stereotypes.
- 笑话固化了对各民族的公式化看法.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. Schools tend to perpetuate the myth that boys are better at sport than girls.
- 学校往往会助长男孩比女孩体育强这一错误观念的延续.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation.
- 时装工业每一个痛苦的时刻都是完全应该被时装设计师们…和那些使这种荒诞创造永久化的杂志懦夫领受.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. We must not perpetuate the religious divisions of the past.
- 我们绝对不能让过去的宗教分裂继续下去。
来自辞典例句
- 5. This monument was built to perpetuate the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
- 这座纪念碑是为了永怀亚伯拉罕.林肯而建立的.
来自辞典例句