ever adv. 1.〔表示否定、疑问和比较〕曾经,这以前。 Nothing ever happens in this village. 这个村里从来没有发生事情。 Have you ever seen [Did you ever see] a tiger 你以前见过老虎没有? Have you ever been there 以前你到过那里吗? Did you ever=Did you ever see [hear] the like 这种事你听[看]过吗? the nicest thing ever =that ever was on record 迄今最好的东西。 2.〔表示不耐烦等语气〕可能,总会。 Is he ever at home 他也有在家的时候吗? 3. 〔表示条件、威胁等语气〕假如,要是。 If the band ever plays again, we will dance. 要是乐队再演奏的话,我们就跳个舞。 If I ever catch him. 我要是抓到他的话,哼〔就决不饶他〕! 4.〔表示肯定,现在一般用 always〕常是,老是,始终,不断;永远是。 work hard as ever一向勤奋。 do better than ever做得比一向更好了。 He is ever repeating the same words. 他总是重复同样的话。 Yours ever=E- yours 〔信末语〕你永久的朋友。 5.〔加强 as...as〕尽量。 Be as quick as ever you can! 尽量赶快。 6.〔加强疑问词或最高级形容词,表示惊奇〕究竟,到底。 Which ever way did he go 他究竟上哪一边去了? What ever can it be 那到底是什么? Why ever didn't you say so 你究竟为什么不那样讲? 7.〔加强 so, such 等〕非常。 ever such a nice man 非常好的人。 as ever 仍旧;照常。 ever after [afterwards] 打那以后,以后老是。 ever and again =ever and anon 〔古语〕时时,常常。 ever since 从…以来 (I have known him ever since he was a boy. 从他是孩子的时候起,我就认识他了)。 ever so 〔口语〕大大,非常 (The patient is ever so much better. 病人好得多了。 Thank you ever so much. 非常感激你。I like it ever so much. 我非常喜欢它)。 ever such 〔口语〕很…的 (It is ever such a tool. 这工具很有用)。 for ever 永远。 〔俚语〕一直 (He would go on talking for ever. 他一直不停地讲下去)。 for ever and ever =for ever and a day 永远。 hardly [scarcely] ever 难得,几乎从不。 seldom, if ever 就是有也极少见。
As ever - larger quantities of goods and services are produced , they have to be consumed 由于生产的物品与提供的服务越来越多,我们必须去消费。
With each passing year , fewer workers are paying ever - higher benefits to an ever - larger number of retirees 随著每一年过去,将会有越来越少的就职人员为越来越多的退休人员支付日益高涨的福利。
As the ever - largest project in the country , snwt contains lots of works and covers many professional fields 摘要南水北调工程是我国现今最大的水利工程,不仅工程量浩大、任务艰巨而且涉及面广,关系复杂。
In a era of commodity server hardware and zero license - cost software , it can often be more effective to scale an application across many machines rather than on ever - larger servers 在这个使用普通服务器硬件和零许可证成本软件的年代,可伸缩性常常使我们能够更有效地将应用程序扩展到更多的机器,而不是像以前升级为更庞大的服务器。
In other words , we ve come full circle , in the sense that gains in individual programmer productivity are still largely offset by our failures in communication among ever - larger teams tackling ever - more complicated problems 换句话说,我们一直在绕圈子,我们通过单个程序员得到的生产力悄悄的被在处理更加复杂问题的更大团队中交流方面的失败而抵消了。