Antiquity
[æn'tɪkwɪtɪ] or [æn'tɪkwəti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an artifact surviving from the past.
(noun.) the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe.
手打:斯蒂芬--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.
(n.) Old age.
(n.) Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
(n.) The ancients; the people of ancient times.
(n.) An old gentleman.
(n.) A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.]
伊妮德編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Old times, the olden time, ancient times, days of yore, AULD LANG SYNE.[2]. Ancients, people of old times.[3]. Ancientness, great age.[4]. [pl.] Relics of old times.
校對:塔玛拉
解釋/意思:
n. ancient times esp. the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans: great age: (Shak.) old age seniority: ancient style: the people of old time: (pl.) manners customs relics of ancient times.—n. Antiquitār′ian one attached to the practices and opinions of antiquity.
塞西尔編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Can we suppose that he is ignorant of antiquity, and therefore has recourse to invention? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Many treatises in different languages have been published on pigeons, and some of them are very important, as being of considerable antiquity. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- They have bee n recognized as fundamental from antiquity. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Sounding Mr. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Far back in the obscuring gloom of a prehistoric antiquity, man wore probably only the hirsute covering which nature gave him. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford; for the antiquity of the latter city was more pleasing to him. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The early history of Damascus is shrouded in the mists of a hoary antiquity. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- For they are not ignorant of antiquity like the poets, nor are they afraid of their enemies, nor is any madman a friend of theirs. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Both these great nations of antiquity, ho wever, failed to carry the sciences that arose in connection with their arts to a high degree of generalization. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- So far as we at present know there were four forms of time-measuring instruments known to antiquity--the sun-dial, the clepsydra or water clock, the hour-glass, and the graduated candle. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Antiquity brooded above this region, business was banished thence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The therns, and he smiled maliciously as he spoke, are but the result of ages of evolution from the pure white ape of antiquity. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The origin of billiards is lost in antiquity. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It was to console himself for all this antiquity, I suppose, that he fixed upon so very young a mistress as myself. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- He lived in the third century B.C,and has been called the greatest mathematician of antiquity. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus--Jewish antiquities--oh dear! 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The gentleman was an enthusiastic collector of Oriental antiquities, and had been for many years a liberal patron of the establishment in Lambeth. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It is the same with silks, antiquities, shawls, etc. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But I thought that it might be the effect of the antiquities of Oxford. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- On the 8th of December of that year, my companion and I crossed the Bay, to visit the antiquities which are scattered on the shores of Baiae. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- In the morning we rode in the adjoining country, or wandered through the palaces, in search of pictures or antiquities. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
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