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perpetuate + noun phrase
The media often perpetuates negative stereotypes about minorities.
媒体常常使关于少数群体的负面刻板印象持续存在。
使永存；保持
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使永存；保持
cause to continue or prevail
The media often perpetuates negative stereotypes about minorities.
媒体常常使关于少数群体的负面刻板印象持续存在。
使(某物)永久化；使(某物)无限期持续；也指保护(某物)免于灭绝或遗忘。
To make (something) perpetual; to make (something) continue for an indefinite time; also, to preserve (something) from extinction or oblivion.
通过重复延长(某物)的存在；加强。
To prolong the existence of (something) by repetition; to reinforce.
perpetuate
Base
原形
perpetuates
3rd person
第三人称单数
perpetuating
-ing
现在分词
perpetuated
Past
过去式
perpetuated
Past participle
过去分词
The media perpetuate harmful stereotypes.
媒体使有害的刻板印象持续存在。
They perpetuated the myth for decades.
他们使这个神话延续了几十年。
The system is perpetuating inequality.
这个系统正在使不平等持续下去。
规则动词
The media often perpetuates stereotypes.
媒体常常使刻板印象持续存在。
The myth was perpetuated by old textbooks.
这个神话被旧教科书永久化了。
They are perpetuating a false narrative.
他们正在延续一个虚假的叙述。
The media often perpetuates negative stereotypes about minorities.
媒体常常使关于少数群体的负面刻板印象持续存在。
常用搭配，强调错误观念或谣言的延续。
His speech perpetuated the myth that hard work always leads to success.
他的演讲使努力一定会带来成功这种谬论得以延续。
被动语态，强调原因。
This cycle of violence is perpetuated by poverty and inequality.
这种暴力循环因贫困和不平等而持续存在。
Not this
He perpetuated the crime.
Use this
He perpetrated the crime.
Perpetrate 意为“犯（罪）”，而 perpetuate 意为“使永存”，两者易混淆。
Not this
The tradition perpetuates.
Use this
The tradition is perpetuated.
Perpetuate 是及物动词，需要宾语或用于被动语态，不能单独用作不及物动词。
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使谬论永存
The media often perpetuates the myth that success comes overnight.
媒体经常使成功一夜之间到来的谬论永存。
使刻板印象持续
Such jokes only perpetuate negative stereotypes about certain groups.
这样的笑话只会使关于某些群体的负面刻板印象持续。
使循环持续
Poverty can perpetuate a cycle of disadvantage across generations.
贫困会使不利条件的循环代代持续。
使不平等持续下去
Unfair policies perpetuate inequality in the education system.
不公平的政策使教育体系中的不平等持续下去。
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联想‘perpetual（永恒的）’，‘perpetuate’就是让事物永恒延续。
语域：formal 常见场景：学术写作、正式演讲、讨论传统或制度 通常用于正式或书面语境，多出现在学术讨论、政策论述等场合。
常用结构：perpetuate sth.
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