anachronism / əˈnæk rəˌnɪz əm /

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anachronism 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. 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.
  2. 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

n. 名词 noun

error in time placement

更多anachronism例句

  1. The divide between capital and labor increasingly looks like an anachronism, a throwback to the language and illusory simplicity of another time.
  2. The usual policy of staying out of foreign conflicts unless absolutely necessary was becoming an anachronism.
  3. By 2030, I would argue that we will view this problem in the rearview mirror as a quaint anachronism.
  4. The “reenactment” of the battle, an even more recent anachronism, dates back only to 1977.
  5. These days, says another former top studio executive, puts are an anachronism.
  6. With these appears, by a poetic anachronism, Dietrich of Berne.
  7. By the time of the Reform Bill, a sinecure had become an anachronism.
  8. Yet there are "many traces of apparent anachronism," of divergence from the more antique picture of life.
  9. It was to him more of an anachronism than any manifestation he had yet encountered, even at the Fort, that stronghold of the past.
  10. But what is an anachronism of this kind compared to that which involves the principal character in one continued topsy-turveydom?