Prehistoric
[priːhɪ'stɒrɪk] or [,prihɪ'stɔrɪk]
解释:
(adj.) no longer fashionable; 'my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes' .
(adj.) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history; 'prehistoric settlements'; 'prehistoric peoples' .
(adj.) of or relating to times before written history; 'prehistoric archeology' .
阿德莱德手打--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.
伊莉斯校对
解释:
adj. relating to a time before that treated of in history.—n. Prēhis′tory history prior to record—the Ger. Urgeschichte.
校对:特伦斯
娱乐性解释：
adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
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例句:
- Far back in the obscuring gloom of a prehistoric antiquity, man wore probably only the hirsute covering which nature gave him. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Silbury Hill is the largest prehistoric artificial mound in England. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- BOOK III THE DAWN OF HISTORY XV THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES § 1. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But both in the matter of our time charts and the three maps we have given of prehistoric geography there is necessarily much speculative matter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It is interesting to speculate how prehistoric man came to use the skin of the beasts of the field for warmth and shelter. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Here, for example, is the concluding passage of the _Iliad_, describing very exactly the making of a prehistoric barrow. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Neither the historic nor prehistoric records find man without musical instruments of some sort. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Only I don't see-- Dash it, Dad, don't be prehistoric! 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Contrast of Prehistoric Labour and Implements and Modern Tools. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- One of the most interesting and informing of these prehistoric compositions of the Aryans survives in the Greek _Iliad_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Pearls were the first gems discovered and used as ornaments in prehistoric ages. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- There may have been prehistoric pestilences. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It does not affect the clear evidence of a very long and very ancient prehistoric separation of the speakers of these three diverse groups of tongues. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Accordingly we have now only the very much altered and revised vestiges of that spoken literature of prehistoric times. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It is from the active, restless seas of the present, and from the dead seas of the prehistoric past that our vast stores of salt come. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
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