immemorial

常见例句

雙語例句

• People have been kicking objects around for fun since time immemorial.
  自古以來人們爲了取樂就將身邊的東西踢來踢去。
• Since time immemorial, the whale has been wreathed in mystery—and of course it almost predates time itself, having existed long before the land around which it swims.
  自遠古以來，鯨魚一直被披上神秘的色彩--儅然它們也的確幾乎與時間一樣古老，它們存在的時間比它們遊過的陸地的歷史還長。
• There was this best-seller a few years ago [in 1984], it went through about ten printings, by a woman named Joan Peters—or at least, signed by Joan Peters—called From Time Immemorial.
  在幾年前[1984年]，它曾是本暢銷書，曾被印刷了十多次，是一位名爲瓊·彼得斯的女子寫的（應該是名女子，因爲簽名是瓊·彼得斯），書名叫《遠古以來》。 書中腳注衆多。

原聲例句

• And I don't know why, but since time immemorial that is the way computer scientists have drawn trees.
  葉子是在最下麪的，我不知道爲什麽,但從記事以來他們就是這麽畫樹的,這也許就是爲什麽我們。
  麻省理工公開課 - 計算機科學及編程導論課程節選
• Human rights seems like such a sort of time immemorial concept.
  人權聽起來就像是一個如此,久遠的概唸。
  普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節選
• No. Everybody's been using that, sort of since time immemorial or at least since the sixteenth century.
  不，每個人都在用它，這個進程可能可以追溯到太古時期，不過至少16世紀。
  耶魯公開課 - 聆聽音樂課程節選

權威例句

• People have aggregated their capital, i.e. saved money, and started and expanded businesses since time immemorial.
  FORBES: Barack Obama: The Anti-Capital President
• Platitudes like these have been the stuff of commencement speeches from time immemorial.
  ECONOMIST: Lexington
• Taking the football team hostage as a way to get public support for school financing has happened since time immemorial.
  FORBES: Will Jacksonville, Florida, kill school sports?
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