take forever
take forever — 搭配詞
- take foreverbase form
- takes foreverthird-person singular
- took foreverpast
- taking foreverpresent participle
1. if something takes forever, it feels annoyingly slow and seems to last much long
久到不行
覺得某事花太多時間
if something takes forever, it feels annoyingly slow and seems to last much longer than you want or expect.
The app is taking forever to load on my old phone.
這個 app 在我的舊手機上載入久到不行。
take forever to + verb
The lunch line took forever, so we ate after the bell.
午餐隊伍排得久到不行，所以我們打鐘後才吃飯。
take forever in a complaint about waiting
Soraya took forever choosing a sandwich from the long menu.
面對長長的菜單，Soraya 挑三明治挑到久到不行。
The rain took forever to stop before the school match.
校內比賽前，這場雨下到久到不行才停。
Even a short form can take forever when the website keeps crashing.
就算只是短短一張表單，網站一直當掉也會讓你填到久到不行。
- drag on
often suggests something continues tediously for too long
- take ages
very similar in meaning; especially common in British English
- go on and on
best when speech, noise, or an event seems endless
- be over quickly
to finish in a short time
- go by fast
to seem short because time passes quickly
文法句型
it takes forever to + verb
[thing] takes forever
[person] takes forever to + verb
用法筆記
Informal and often slightly impatient; speakers use it when a wait feels unreasonably long, even if the real time is not extreme. It is common before 'to' plus a verb, as in 'takes forever to load'.