Immemorial
[ɪmɪ'mɔːrɪəl] or [,ɪmə'mɔrɪəl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history; 'time immemorial' .
校對:迈拉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.
阿斯特編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Beyond memory, that cannot be remembered.
乔迪校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Primitive, ancient, archaic, primordial, timehonored, remote
ANT:Recent, modern, late, upstart, fresh
手打:苏珊
解釋/意思:
adj. beyond the reach of memory.—adj. Immem′orable.—adv. Immemō′rially.
整理:梅尔巴
例句/造句/用法:
- The sons have been called Arthurs, Uthers, and Caradocs, from immemorial time. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Eridu, Lagash, Ur, Uruk, Larsa, have already an immemorial past when first they appear in history. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- From time immemorial the black pirates of Barsoom have preyed upon the Holy Therns. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- For she was to him what he was to her, the immemorial magnificence of mystic, palpable, real otherness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- When the lake dwellers sowed their little patches of wheat in Switzerland, they were already following the immemorial practice of mankind. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- From time immemorial man has obtained salt from sea water. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- 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. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The door opened, and his sister stood before him in her immemorial purple flannel dressing-gown, with her hair on pins. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- 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. 十九世紀發明進展.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- They seem to have been called customs, as denoting customary payments, which had been in use for time immemorial. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- According to the immemorial usage of waiters in all ages. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
整理:梅尔巴