perpetuate

perpetuate

英 [pə'petʃʊeɪt; -tjʊ-]
　　美 [pɚ'pɛtʃuet]

vt. 使不朽；保持
　　adj. 長存的

中文詞源：

perpetuate 持續，堅持

per-,完全的，-pet,尋求，追尋，詞源同compete,petition.引申詞義持續，堅持。

例句：

1. Jokes perpetuate various national stereotypes.
笑話固化瞭對各民族的公式化看法.

2. Schools tend to perpetuate the myth that boys are better at sport than girls.
學校往往會助長男孩比女孩體育強這一錯誤觀念的延續.

3. Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation.
時裝工業每一個痛苦的時刻都是完全應該被時裝設計師們…和那些使這種荒誕創造永久化的雜志懦夫領受.

4. We must not perpetuate the religious divisions of the past.
我們絕對不能讓過去的宗教分裂繼續下去。

5. This monument was built to perpetuate the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
這座紀念碑是為瞭永懷亞伯拉罕.林肯而建立的.