Indefinite

(adj.) not decided or not known; 'were indefinite about their plans'; 'plans are indefinite' .

(adj.) vague or not clearly defined or stated; 'must you be so indefinite?'; 'amorphous blots of color having vague and indefinite edges'; 'he would not answer so indefinite a proposal' .

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• I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• What then checks an indefinite increase in the number of species? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Mr Boffin takes Mr John Rokesmith at his word, in postponing to some indefinite period, the consideration of salary. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• His indefinite nausea would not let him stay. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• For now he felt like a pair of scales, the half of which tips down and down into an indefinite void. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• However, it is agreed that they must 'work' to the last, and that if they did not work, something indefinite would happen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• One-thousandth part of the acid introduced into a vat of gelatine or into decoctions of animal matter, prevents their undergoing decomposition for an indefinite period of time. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• And at the best, how indefinite and unsatisfactory, only to know so vaguely what they are! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Hitherto the court at Byzantium had possessed a certain indefinite authority over the Pope. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I should be happy, myself, to propose two months--three--an indefinite period, in fact--but I have a partner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The direct action of changed conditions leads to definite or indefinite results. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• An abstract and indefinite future is in control with all which that connotes in depreciation of present power and opportunity. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It amused him to think of the van der Luydens' having carried her off to Skuytercliff on a second visit, and this time for an indefinite period. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• If properly treated, a negative remains good for years, and will serve for an indefinite number of positives or true photographs. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• A pause of some seconds succeeded, filled up by the low, vague hum of numbers; Miss Miller walked from class to class, hushing this indefinite sound. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• There is an indefinite sense that he must be invading some region of singularity, good or bad. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But they were all vague and indefinite with one another, stiffened in the fate that moved them apart. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I thought of her as twelve--fourteen--an indefinite date; but she seemed a child. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• If so, the answer was indefinite and vague. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The troops were in a healthy climate, and where they could subsist for an indefinite period even if their line back to Vera Cruz should be cut off. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• But that expression of 'violently in love' is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• He has decided to leave Europe for an indefinite time. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• His stay became indefinite. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The judgment, when it at last came, was as indefinite as what had gone before it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• More than that, there's no saying when we may come home again; and it would never do to take him away for an indefinite time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• By the Ferris wheel the almost indefinite application of the tension spoke to wheels of large dimensions has been vindicated, the expense being far smaller than that of the stiff spoke. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was a happy brooding, although tinged with regret at being separated for an indefinite time from her gentle aunt and dear cousin. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It makes a great difference whether the general expectation of knowledge, as this indefinite feeling may be termed, is based upon a sound judgment. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Miss Bella Wilfer becomes an inmate, for an indefinite period, of the eminently aristocratic dwelling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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