1.形容词

永久的；永恒的

Heavy drinking can cause permanent damage to the brain.

酗酒能造成永久性大脑损伤。

The ban is intended to be permanent.

禁令将永久生效。

拓展：permanently

    His reason hadbeen permanently affected by what he had witnessed.

    他所目睹的那一幕永久性地影响了他的神智。

    The only way tolose weight permanently is to completely change your attitudes toward food.

    永久性减肥的唯一办法就是彻底改变对食物的态度。

拓展：permanence

    Anything whichthreatens the permanence of the treaty is a threat to peace.

    任何对条约持续生效构成威胁的因素都将危及和平。

拓展：permanency

    They graduallyrealized the permanency of their condition.

    他们渐渐意识到他们的这种状况将永久地持续下去。

（尤指问题或困难）不断出现的，一直存在的

They feel under permanent threat.

他们觉得一直处于威胁之下。

There was a permanent 20-yard queue for the portable toilets.

流动厕所前总排着20码长的队伍。

（员工）终生的,长期的

At the end of the probationary period you will become apermanent employee.

试用期结束后,你将成为长期雇员。

（家庭住址）固定的

York Cottage was as near to a permanent home as the childrenknew.

在孩子们眼中,约克小屋最像一个安定的家。

They had no permanent address.

他们没有固定居所。