| 释义 | for eternity collocation
 (also literaryfor all eternity)
 for all time; for ever:
 We could argue for eternity over the rights and wrongs of our political system.
 They were branded as bigots and condemned for all eternity.
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 eternityThey haven't been given these rights for eternity – they should justify having them just like most other people have to.
 As a punishment, he was imprisoned in a lake of fire for all eternity.
 His inspirational words will continue to ring in my ears for eternity.
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Long periods of time
 -athon
 a long haulidiom
 aeon
 age
 be in something for the long haulidiom
 donkey
 eon
 epoch
 era
 eternity
 for days, weeks, months, years, etc.
 forever and a dayidiom
 good
 haul
 long
 long-stay
 month
 not in a month of Sundaysidiom
 time
 yonks
 
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