self-perpetuating

短语

a. 能使自身永久存在的

词形变化

more self-perpetuating 比较级 most self-perpetuating 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Causing itself to continue to exist.

    The committee was self-perpetuating: all it did was hold a meeting to decide when the next meeting was, and consume funds to do so.

    It's a self-perpetuating error, now that we've made it, we can't fix it without breaking things that depend on it.

词源

From self- + perpetuating.

来源:wiktionary