The word "relic" can refer to: 1. An object, custom, or system belonging to the past but having survived into the present. 2. Something made or used long ago and kept for its historical significance. 3. The body or something associated with a saint, regarded as holy.
[N-COUNT 可数名词]遗物;遗迹;纪念物 If you refer to something or someone as a relic of an earlier period, you mean that they belonged to that period but have survived into the present.
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The tower is a relic of grim days when big houses had to be fortified against invaders...
这座塔是那些灰暗岁月的遗迹,那时大房子不得不被加固,以抵御侵略者。
Germany's asylum law is a relic of an era in European history which has passed...
德国的收容法是欧洲历史上一个已逝去时期的遗留产物。
He found himself thinking of the man as a relic from the past.
他把这个男人看成是过去时代的人物。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](有历史价值的)遗物,遗迹,遗址 A relic is something which was made or used a long time ago and which is kept for its historical significance.
[usu with supp]
...a museum of war relics.
战争遗迹纪念馆
...ancient Egyptian relics.
古埃及遗迹
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]圣物;圣骨 A relic is the body of a saint or something else associated with a saint, which some people regard as holy.
Oxford
relic/ˈrelɪk; NAmEˈrelɪk/noun1relic(of/from sth) an object, a tradition, a system, etc. that has survived from the past 遗物;遗迹;遗风;遗俗◆The building stands as the last remaining relic of the town's cotton industry.这座建筑物是小镇棉纺业仅存的遗迹。◆Videotapes may already seem like relics of a bygone era.录像带似乎已成为过去时代的遗物。2a part of the body or clothing of a holy person, or sth that they owned, that is kept after their death and respected as a religious object 圣髑;圣骨;圣人遗物◆holy relics圣人遗物relicrelicsrelic/ˈrelɪk; NAmEˈrelɪk/
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relicrel‧ic /ˈrelɪk/ ●○○ noun [countable]
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1an old object or custom that reminds people of the past or that has lived on from a past time: Roman relics found in a fieldrelic of the books and photos, relics of Rob’s university days Everything in the house seemed old and untouched, like relics of an ancient time.2a part of the body or clothing of a holy person which is kept after their death because it is thought to be holy
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relics[1771]
遗迹(72%),纪念物(24%),神圣的遗物(4%)
n.遗迹,遗物;废墟;纪念物
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