perpetuate

英 [pəˈpetʃueɪt]

美 [pərˈpetʃueɪt]

v.  使永久化; 使持久化; 使持续

过去分词：perpetuated　现在分词：perpetuating　第三人称单数：perpetuates　过去式：perpetuated　

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牛津词典

verb

• 使永久化；使持久化；使持续
  to make sth such as a bad situation, a belief, etc. continue for a long time
  1. to perpetuate injustice
     持续造成不公正
  2. This system perpetuated itself for several centuries.
     这一制度维持了几个世纪。
  3. Comics tend to perpetuate the myth that ‘boys don't cry’.
     连环画往往在延续着“男儿有泪不轻弹”的神话。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使（尤指不好的情况、制度、信仰等）继续，延长
  If someone or somethingperpetuatesa situation, system, or belief, especially a bad one, they cause it to continue.
  1. 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。
  2. This image is a myth perpetuated by the media.
     这种形象是媒体宣传造成的错觉。

英英释义

verb

• cause to continue or prevail
  1. perpetuate a myth

双语例句

• This will perpetuate your speech and cultivate curiosity in others.
  这会令你的演讲永不磨灭，激起他人的好奇。
• The patriarchy is alive and well, he said. I don't want to perpetuate it.
  男性家长制已经根深蒂固了，他说，我不想再推波助澜。
• The root causes reside in social attitudes, norms, and behaviours and the policies that perpetuate them.
  这一根本原因在于社会态度、规范和行为以及使其长期存在的政策。
• In this way, mainstream approaches connecting nanotechnology to the MDGs perpetuate deficit thinking within international health, technology and development policy.
  这样，把纳米技术与MDGs联系起来的方法固化了国际卫生、技术与发展政策的有缺陷的思维。
• To carry on or perpetuate a bitter quarrel or state of enmity.
  世代结仇，长期斗争继续或加长互相怨恨的不和或敌对状态。
• I believe your intention is to perpetuate, and not to weaken, the ties between me and my other and far dearer self.
  我相信你的意图是维护我和我那宝贵得多的另一个自我的关系，而不是削弱这种关系。
• 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。
• Suicide contradicts the natural inclination of the human being to preserve and perpetuate his life.
  自杀违反人性愿意保存和延续生命的自然倾向。
• Additionally humans have traveled through this gate from the past such as the Family of Anu and help perpetuate extinction in this cycle as a result of their discordant genealogies and patterning.
  另外，人类已经通过这一入口而旅行到过去，比如Anu人家族，并由于他们不和谐的血统与模式的缘故，从而帮助上演了本周期的绝灭。
• It's now up to US to continue*. to perpetuate her dream.
  现在是我们继续奋斗，使她的梦想永续传承的时候了。