imperfect

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a. 不完美的, 不完整的, 减弱的, 未完成过去时的 n. 未完成体

发音

US /ɪmˈpɜː(ɹ)fɪkt/
其它 /ɪmpə(ɹ)ˈfɛkt/

词形变化

imperfects 复数 imperfects imperfected imperfecting imperfects 三单 imperfecting 现在分词 imperfected 过去式 imperfected 过去分词 imperfecter imperfectest more imperfect 比较级 most imperfect 最高级

别名

imperf imperf. impf ipf. imp.

教材释义与例句

名词

未完成体

形容词

有缺点的；未完成的；半过去的；未完成时的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Something having a minor flaw.

  2. 2.

    A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.

    语言学
v.
  1. 1.

    to make imperfect

    及物

    1651, John Donne, Letter to Henry Goodere, in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, edited by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910, I write to you from the Spring Garden, whither I withdrew my self to think of this; and the intensenesse of my thinking ends in this, that by my help Gods work should be imperfected, if by any means I resisted the amasement.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Not perfect,

  2. 2.

    Unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.

    生物 植物学
  3. 3.

    Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.

    生物
  4. 4.

    Representing a continuing or repeated action.

    语言学
  5. 5.

    Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

progressive continuous tense imperfect tense progressive tense

上位词 1

tense

下位词 3

future progressive past progressive present progressive
形容词

同义词 3

weak frail fallible

反义词 1

perfect

近义相关 10

human broken corrupt corrupted irregular faulty flawed defective blemished imperfectible

参见 2

broken blemished

相关短语

imperfect tense 未完成时 imperfect subjunctive imperfect indicative imperfect rhyme imperfect rhymes imperfect tenses imperfect indicatives imperfect fungi imperfect subjunctives imperfect time imperfect authentic cadence past imperfect tense present imperfect

词源

From Middle English imperfit, from Old French imparfit (modern French imparfait), from Latin imperfectus. Spelling modified 15c. to conform Latin etymology. See im- + perfect.

来源：wiktionary