adv. 永远；曾经；究竟
n. (Ever)人名；(英)埃弗；(俄)叶韦尔；(西、法)埃韦尔
英 ['evə] 美 ['ɛvɚ]
权威例句
- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
努力过，失败过，没关系，屡战屡败，屡败屡战，每一次失败都比上一次更好。
来自金山词霸 每日一句 - I have $100m hidden away where no one will ever find it.
我把1亿美元藏到了一个永远没人会找到的地方。
来自柯林斯例句 - I can never, ever forgive him. I despise him.
我永远不会原谅他。我鄙视他。
来自柯林斯例句 - She's got a great voice and is singing better than ever.
她的嗓音非常好，现在的唱功比以往任何时候都要好。
来自柯林斯例句 - I've had the hots for him ever since he came to college.
自从他来上大学后，我就对他春心萌动。
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
ever 永远，始终
来自古英语aefre, 永远，总是。来自词根ev, 永远，时期，词源同eon, longevity. -re词源存在争议，可能来自比较级后缀-er.
英文词源
ever
**ever: **[OE] For such a common and longestablished word, the origins of _ever _are surprisingly obscure. It has no relatives in other Germanic languages, so it must be a purely English creation. Its first element probably comes from Germanic *_aiwō _(which is also represented in English _aye _‘ever’ [12] and either, and is related to Latin _aevum _‘age’, source of English eternal).
The second element is a puzzle, though. Candidates that have been put forward include Old English _feorh _‘life’ (thus, ‘ever in life’) and Old English _byre _‘occasion’ (giving the underlying sense ‘on any occasion’). _Never _was formed in the Old English period with the negative particle ne.
=> aye, either, eternal
ever (adv.)
Old English æfre "ever, at any time, always;" of uncertain origin, no cognates in any other Germanic language; perhaps a contraction of a in feore, literally "ever in life" (the expression a to fore is common in Old English writings). First element is almost certainly related to Old English a "always, ever," from Proto-Germanic *aiwo, from PIE *aiw- "vital force, life, long life, eternity" (see eon). Liberman suggests second element is comparative adjectival suffix -re.
Sometimes contracted to e'er in dialect and poetry. Ever began to be used in late Old English as a way to generalize or intensify when, what, where, etc. The sense evolution was from "at any time at all, in any way" to "at any particular time; at some time or another; under any circumstances." Ever so "to whatever extent" is recorded by 1680s. Expression did you ever? (implying "see/do/hear of such a thing") attested by 1840.
