perpetuate
英 [pəˈpetʃ.u.eɪt]
美 [pɚˈpetʃ.u.eɪt]
将“perpetuate”拆解为“per”表示“贯穿”、“持续”,“pet”联想到“宠物”,代表“爱”或“陪伴”,“-uate”为动词后缀,表示“使……”。可以想象成“爱”或“陪伴”某物贯穿始终,即“持续保持或延续”某种状态或事物。
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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。
- 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.
- 1. Jokes perpetuate various national stereotypes.
- 笑话固化了对各民族的公式化看法.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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。
- 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.