Immemorial
[ɪmɪ'mɔːrɪəl] or [,ɪmə'mɔrɪəl]
解释:
(adj.) long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history; 'time immemorial' .
校对:迈拉--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.
阿斯特编辑
同义词及近义词：
a. Beyond memory, that cannot be remembered.
乔迪校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Primitive, ancient, archaic, primordial, timehonored, remote
ANT:Recent, modern, late, upstart, fresh
手打:苏珊
解释:
adj. beyond the reach of memory.—adj. Immem′orable.—adv. Immemō′rially.
整理:梅尔巴
例句:
- The sons have been called Arthurs, Uthers, and Caradocs, from immemorial time. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The joint family system, he said, has descended to us from time immemorial, the Aryan patriarchal system of old still holding sway in India. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Eridu, Lagash, Ur, Uruk, Larsa, have already an immemorial past when first they appear in history. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- From time immemorial the black pirates of Barsoom have preyed upon the Holy Therns. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- From time immemorial the manufacture of iron and steel has been followed in Germany, and that country yet retains pre-eminence in this art both as to mechanical and chemical processes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- For she was to him what he was to her, the immemorial magnificence of mystic, palpable, real otherness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- When the lake dwellers sowed their little patches of wheat in Switzerland, they were already following the immemorial practice of mankind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- From time immemorial man has obtained salt from sea water. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The p riests were the preservers of such wisdom as had been accumulated in the course of man's immemorial struggle with the forces of nature. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Tradition and a seeming necessity had held him to life as he had found it grown up about his tribe since time immemorial. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The door opened, and his sister stood before him in her immemorial purple flannel dressing-gown, with her hair on pins. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Coal gas can hardly be claimed as an invention, however, for natural gas from the bowels of the earth had been observed and used in China from time immemorial. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- From time immemorial it has been customary to arm some sort of a frame with wooden or iron spikes to scratch the earth after the ploughing. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- They seem to have been called customs, as denoting customary payments, which had been in use for time immemorial. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- According to the immemorial usage of waiters in all ages. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
整理:梅尔巴