- 看过 anachronism 的人也看了 :
- misplacement
- solecism
- prolepsis
- misdate
- postdate
anachronism 的定义
- something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: The sword is an anachronism in modern warfare.
- an error in chronology in which a person, object, event, etc., is assigned a date or period other than the correct one: To assign Michelangelo to the 14th century is an anachronism.
anachronism 近义词
error in time placement
anachronism 的近义词 7 个
更多anachronism例句
- The divide between capital and labor increasingly looks like an anachronism, a throwback to the language and illusory simplicity of another time.
- The usual policy of staying out of foreign conflicts unless absolutely necessary was becoming an anachronism.
- By 2030, I would argue that we will view this problem in the rearview mirror as a quaint anachronism.
- The “reenactment” of the battle, an even more recent anachronism, dates back only to 1977.
- These days, says another former top studio executive, puts are an anachronism.
- With these appears, by a poetic anachronism, Dietrich of Berne.
- By the time of the Reform Bill, a sinecure had become an anachronism.
- Yet there are "many traces of apparent anachronism," of divergence from the more antique picture of life.
- It was to him more of an anachronism than any manifestation he had yet encountered, even at the Fort, that stronghold of the past.
- But what is an anachronism of this kind compared to that which involves the principal character in one continued topsy-turveydom?