Ancients
[eɪnʃənts]
解释:
(noun.) people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe).
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例句:
- The information the ancients didn't have was very voluminous. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- He has a clearer conception of the divisions of science and of their relation to the mind of man than was possible to the ancients. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- We need not dwell on what the ancients produced in this line. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- I studied the wisdom of the ancients, and gazed on the happy walls that sheltered the beloved of my soul. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Cast Iron Made by Ancients, Disused for 15 Centuries. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Recourse was had to the inventions of the ancients, from whom the paddle-wheel was taken, to find some other means of propulsion. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Having a desire to see those ancients who were most renowned for wit and learning, I set apart one day on purpose. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The age of inventions in the times of the ancients rested mainly upon simple applications of these mechanical powers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The name was applied by the ancients to a period of about forty days, the hottest season of the year, at the time of the rising of Sirius, the dog-star. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The ancients wore their diamonds uncut because they could not find a substance that would grind or cut them. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Like the ancients in general, he had no idea of the gradual perfectibility of man or of the education of the human race. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The ancients usually ranked good fortune among those circumstances of life which indicate merit. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The ancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navigation and the end of the world. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- We have some idea how the ancients looked and felt and wrote; the abundant evidence takes us back to the cave-dwellers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The appeals of Confucius to the wisdom of the ancients are always quoted to clinch this suggestion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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