inveterate
inveterate 英 [ɪnˈvetərət] 美 [ɪnˈvɛtərɪt]
adj. 根深的；积习的；成癖的
- If you're an inveterate doodler, all your notebooks are covered with drawings. If you're an inveterate golf player, you probably get twitchy if you haven't been out on a course in a week.
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- adj. 根深的；积习的；成癖的
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1. Mr Reid complained that inveterate Republican opposition had prevented the Senate from taking up the cap-and-trade scheme passed by the House of Representatives last year.
雷德抱怨说因为共和党对民主党根深蒂固的反对阻碍了参议院实施在去年就由众议院通过的限额交易计划。
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2. An inveterate optimist about the American economy, Mr. Buffett also forecast an eventual recovery, asserting that the country has faced even more severe economic travails in the past.
作为一位对于美国经济根深蒂固的乐观主义者，巴菲特还预测，经济最终将会恢复，声称美国在过往曾经面对过更加严峻的经济阵痛。
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3. Part of this sort of this inveterate Calvinism, and part of the fact that, "What if the dams burst?"
即根深蒂固的加尔文主义,还有一些事实,诸如,"万一溃堤了怎么办"
- inveterate (adj.) late 14c., "old," from Latin inveteratus "of long standing, chronic, old," past participle of inveterare "become old in," from in- "in, into" (from PIE root *en "in") + verb from vetus (genitive veteris) "old" (see veteran). From early 15c. as "firmly established by long continuance;" from c. 1500, of persons, "hardened, confirmed" (in habit, etc.). Related: Inveterateness.
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