| 英语单词 | anachronism |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [ə'nækrənɪzəm] 美 [ə'nækrənɪzəm] |
| 中文释义 | n.时代上的错误;被置错时代或年代的事物;不合潮流的人(物) |
| 英语例句 | (1) The second major anachronism is the movie's approach to religion. (2) It would be an anachronism to talk of Queen Victoria watching television. (3) Modern dress is an anachronism in productions of Shakespeare's plays. (4) Today a hay type of pasture plant is really an anachronism. (5) The monarchy is seen by some as an anachronism in present day society. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 第二个主要的时空错误是影片对宗教的处理。 (2) 谈到维多利亚女王看电视是时代上的错误。 (3) 在莎士比亚剧作演出中出现的现代服装,是弄错年代的东西。 (4) 今天干草型牧草是不合适宜的。 (5) 君主政体在当今社会中被一些人视为是过时的制度。 |
| vocabulary简明 | An anachronism is something that doesn't fit its time period, like if you say you'll "dial" your smartphone. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Anachronism comes from the Greek roots ana- which means "against" and chron- which means "time." Together they represent a situation in which something happens that should not because it belongs to another time period. You see anachronisms all the time in the movies — they occur when you see a jet fly over a Civil War battle! Or knights jousting over a maiden during the time of Shakespeare! |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]不合时代的事;过时现象 You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]时代错误,年代误植(指所叙人、事与时代不符的错误) An anachronism is something in a book, play, or film that is wrong because it did not exist at the time the book, play, or film is set.
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