eventual
adjective /ɪˈventʃuəl/
/ɪˈventʃuəl/
[only before noun]- happening at the end of a period of time or of a process
最后的;最终的;结果的 - the eventual winner of the tournament
锦标赛的最终胜利者 - It is impossible to predict what the eventual outcome will be.
无法预测最终结果会怎么样。 - The village school may face eventual closure.
这所乡村学校可能面临最后被关闭。
Collocations DictionaryEventual is used with these nouns:- aim
- closure
- demise
- …
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词源early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to an event or events’): from Latin eventus (from evenire ‘result, happen’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + venire ‘come’), on the pattern of actual. - the eventual winner of the tournament