单词 | perpetuate |
释义 | per·pet·u·ate /pəˈpetʃueɪt $ pər-/ ●○○ verb [transitive] CONTINUE/NOT STOPto make a situation, attitude etc, especially a bad one, continue to exist for a long time 使持续,使长久〔尤指不好的事物〕 an education system that perpetuates the divisions in our society 使我们的社会持续分化的一种教育制度 —perpetuation /pəˌpetʃuˈeɪʃən $ pər-/ noun [uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusperpetuate• The myth of a woman taking the blame to protect the male foible should not be perpetuated.• This new book perpetuates all the old myths about the Kennedy assassination.• The proposed law will perpetuate existing economic and class inequalities.• His view is that the welfare system helps to perpetuate failure and poverty.• This is perpetuated in modern weaning during the oral stage and finds an equivalent in manic-depressive and paranoid-schizophrenic disorders.• But despite the well-meaning ring of colorblind ideals, you can not demand sameness of language while perpetuating segregated education.• We in the news media help to perpetuate the erroneous cliche.• Public aid to the needy and even public sanitation tended to perpetuate the more vulnerable members of the race.• She was launched in 1965 to replace the Vincent and named Vigilant to perpetuate the traditional name.• They gave such lyrical names to almost every place they seized, thus perpetuating their memory for ever.• She carried with her the values of the eastern seaboard, sought to perpetuate them, and succeeded.per·pet·u·ate verbChineseSyllable make etc, a Corpus situation, especially to attitude |
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