eternal: [14] Something that is eternal lasts literally for ‘aeons’. The word comes via Old French eternal from aeternālis, a late Latin development of the Latin adjective aeternus ‘eternal’. This in turn was a derivative of aevum ‘age’ (which crops up in English medieval, primeval, etc), a relative of Greek aión ‘age’ (from which English gets aeon) and archaic English aye ‘ever’. => aeon, aye, ever
eternal (adj.)
late 14c., from Old French eternel "eternal," or directly from Late Latin aeternalis, from Latin aeternus "of an age, lasting, enduring, permanent, everlasting, endless," contraction of aeviternus "of great age," from aevum "age" (see eon). Used since Middle English both of things or conditions without beginning or end and things with a beginning only but no end. A parallel form, Middle English eterne, is from Old French eterne (cognate with Spanish eterno), directly from Latin aeternus. Related: Eternally. The Eternal (n.) for "God" is attested from 1580s.
中文解释
1. eternal fire 长明灯(坟前的灯).
实用例句
1. The series chronicles the everyday adventures of two eternal bachelors.
这个系列剧按照时间顺序记述了两个老光棍每天的奇遇。
来自柯林斯例句
2. In the background was that eternal hum.
背景音是没完没了的嗡嗡声。
来自柯林斯例句
3. the promise of eternal life in heaven
在天国永生的许诺
来自《权威词典》
4. the eternal verities of life
生命永恒的真理
来自《权威词典》
5. The principles of the Paris Commune radiates with eternal light.