anachronism

英 [ə'nækrənɪzəm] 美 [ə'nækrənɪzəm]

• n. 时代上的错误；被置错时代或年代的事物；不合潮流的人(物)

英英释义

Noun:

1. something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

2. an artifact that belongs to another time

3. a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The second major anachronism is the movie's approach to religion.
   第二个主要的时空错误是影片对宗教的处理。
2. It would be an anachronism to talk of Queen Victoria watching television.
   谈到维多利亚女王看电视是时代上的错误。
3. Modern dress is an anachronism in productions of Shakespeare's plays.
   在莎士比亚剧作演出中出现的现代服装，是弄错年代的东西。
4. Today a hay type of pasture plant is really an anachronism.
   今天干草型牧草是不合适宜的。
5. The monarchy is seen by some as an anachronism in present day society.
   君主政体在当今社会中被一些人视为是过时的制度。

经典引文

• He had thought of Chevron as a dead thing, an anachronism, an exquisite survival..with its..servants and luxury.

  出自： V. Sackville

• She herself was a smoldering anachronism, a throwback to one of those ardent young women of the Sixties, Turgenev's heroines.

  出自： M. McCarthy

• Anachronisms in the script.., like penicillin and the atomic bomb.

  出自： S. J. Perelman

近反义词

【近义词】

• relic 神圣的遗物
• survival 幸存
• leftover 剩饭
• holdover 延期
• archaism 古语
• mistiming 误时
• misdating 动词misdate的现在...