Relic
['relɪk] or ['rɛlɪk]
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion; a remnant.
(n.) The body from which the soul has departed; a corpse; especially, the body, or some part of the body, of a deceased saint or martyr; -- usually in the plural when referring to the whole body.
(n.) Hence, a memorial; anything preserved in remembrance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships.
錄入:斯蒂芬妮
解釋/意思:
n. that which is left after loss or decay of the rest: a corpse (gener. pl.): (R.C.) any personal memorial of a reputed saint to be held in reverence as an incentive to faith and piety: a memorial a souvenir: a monument.—n. Rel′ic-mong′er one who traffics in relics.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Daylight developing soon followed, and the dark room, as far as the kodaker was concerned, took its proper place as a relic of the dark ages. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- They hastened to preserve the relic. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She remembered Gerty's words: I know him--he will help you; and her mind clung to them as a sick person might cling to a healing relic. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It was not George's relic. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The relic-hunter battered at these persistently, and sweated profusely over his work. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Who is not familiar with the chipped flint arrow-heads that the farmer so often turns up with his plow as a relic of the period when Americans were red-skinned instead of white? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- We have already noted the earlier adventures of this venerable relic before the days of Muhammad in chap. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But isn't this relic matter a little overdone? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But the relic that touched us most was the plain old sword of that stout Crusader, Godfrey of Bulloigne--King Godfrey of Jerusalem. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I commit you, my kind nurse, to your uncle's care; to yours I entrust the dearest relic of my better self. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- This relic was long ago carried away to Genoa. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We brought not a relic from Ephesus! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Great Salt Lake of Utah is a relic of a great body of water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Near the wall stood a fragment of sculptured stone--a monkish relic--once, perhaps, the base of a cross. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He thrust me into that dark hiding-place--a relic of old days, known only to himself. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Yet they all had lived and died unconscious of the different fates awaiting their relics. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- In a tool-shed at the bottom of the garden, lay the relics of building-materials, left by masons lately employed to repair a part of the premises. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Nay, tell me how you class your wealth of books The drifted relics of all time. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- These relics have a history then? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Many relics of the inhabitants have been found in these cliff dwellings, although we cannot tell how they lived, for the region is now rainless and therefore destitute of food plants. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- There is no hint of an enemy or competitor to them in the relics we find of their world. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But there was no magic in the relics and little conviction about the chanting. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Miss Havisham had settled down, I hardly knew how, upon the floor, among the faded bridal relics with which it was strewn. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- All these relics gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- There was nothing else to do, and so every body went to hunting relics. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They are relics of the grandeur of Genoa's palmy days--the days when she was a great commercial and maritime power several centuries ago. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how--these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- These people have a somewhat singular taste in the matter of relics. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- That bronze relics were found apparently of anterior manufacture to any made of iron, was doubtless due to the destruction of the iron by that great consumer--oxygen. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- They laid them back on the lifeless breast,--dust to dust,--poor mournful relics of early dreams, which once made that cold heart beat so warmly! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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