Ancients
[eɪnʃənts]
解釋/意思:
(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/造句/用法:
- The information the ancients didn't have was very voluminous. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- 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. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- We need not dwell on what the ancients produced in this line. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I studied the wisdom of the ancients, and gazed on the happy walls that sheltered the beloved of my soul. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Cast Iron Made by Ancients, Disused for 15 Centuries. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Having a desire to see those ancients who were most renowned for wit and learning, I set apart one day on purpose. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- The ancients wore their diamonds uncut because they could not find a substance that would grind or cut them. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Like the ancients in general, he had no idea of the gradual perfectibility of man or of the education of the human race. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The ancients usually ranked good fortune among those circumstances of life which indicate merit. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The ancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navigation and the end of the world. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We have some idea how the ancients looked and felt and wrote; the abundant evidence takes us back to the cave-dwellers. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The appeals of Confucius to the wisdom of the ancients are always quoted to clinch this suggestion. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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