資料來源 : pyDict
永不,從來沒有;不,沒有
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Never \Nev"er\, adv. [AS. n?fre; ne not, no + ?fre ever.]
1. Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past,
present, or future. --Shak.
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
--Pope.
2. In no degree; not in the least; not.
Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his
eyes in another man's head, and yet see never the
worse. --South.
And he answered him to never a word. --Matt. xxvii.
14.
Note: Never is much used in composition with present
participles to form adjectives, as in never-ceasing,
never-dying, never-ending, never-fading, never-failing,
etc., retaining its usual signification.
{Never a deal}, not a bit. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{Never so}, as never before; more than at any other time, or
in any other circumstances; especially; particularly; --
now often expressed or replaced by {ever so}.
Ask me never so much dower and gift. --Gen. xxxiv.
12.
A fear of battery, . . . though never so well
grounded, is no duress. --Blackstone.
資料來源 : WordNet®
never
adv 1: not ever; at no time in the past or future; "I have never
been to China"; "I shall never forget this day"; "had
never seen a circus"; "never on Sunday"; "I will never
marry you!" [syn: {ne'er}] [ant: {always}]
2: not at all; certainly not; not in any circumstances; "never
fear"; "bringing up children is never easy"; "that will
never do"; "what is morally wrong can never be politically
right"