| 英语单词 | prehistoric |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [ˌpriːhɪ'stɒrɪk] 美 [ˌpriːhɪ'stɔːrɪk] |
| 中文释义 | adj.史前的；陈腐的 =prehistorical. |
| 英语例句 | (1) Some prehistoric people lived in caves. (2) They have found prehistoric remains. (3) His ideas on morals are really prehistoric. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 有些史前时期的人住在洞穴里。 (2) 他们发现了史前遗迹。 (3) 他的道德观念真是太陈腐了。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If while hiking, you see strange painting on a cliff, it may be rock art from prehistoric times, meaning something from the time before history was recorded. |
| vocabulary扩展 | When you break down the word prehistoric, it’s easy to figure out what it means. The prefix pre-, means “before” and historic relates to something from a past culture. Put the two together, and you get prehistoric, a word that describes something that comes from a time before history was recorded. For example, Stonehenge is a prehistoric site, or the woolly mammoth is a prehistoric beast. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]史前的；有文字记载以前的 Prehistoric people and things existed at a time before information was written down.
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