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relic

/rel-ik/US // ˈrɛl ɪk //UK // (ˈrɛlɪk) //

遗迹,遗物,遗留物,残余物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a surviving memorial of something past.
    • : an object having interest by reason of its age or its association with the past: a museum of historic relics.
    • : a surviving trace of something: a custom that is a relic of paganism.
    • : relics, remaining parts or fragments.the remains of a deceased person.
    • : something kept in remembrance; souvenir; memento.
    • : Ecclesiastical. the body, a part of the body, or some personal memorial of a saint, martyr, or other sacred person, preserved as worthy of veneration.
    • : a once widespread linguistic form that survives in a limited area but is otherwise obsolete.

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Examples

  • He would become a keeper of junkyards—overgrown lost worlds of relic chariots.

  • Today Friedman’s doctrine, like many relics of the 1970s, is viewed as a bit of a cartoon.

  • Most notably, Switzerland completely overhauled its epidemic law, a relic from 1886.

  • It’s one of the most amusing ongoing appendage-measuring contests in media, a relic of the TV era and an example of how the fiercest battles are often fought over the most inconsequential things.

  • One thing that’s keeping them alive is relic organic matter deposited from the ocean in an earlier geologic era.

  • Blues music is often treated like a museum piece, a relic from a bygone day, but this band will make you want to get up and dance.

  • Orphans is a true literary relic: a small shapely paperback that is tough to track down, thanks to a limited print run.

  • And then Further is gone, back on the road, like a time-traveling relic from another era or an apparition of Jerry Garcia.

  • Enjoy Messi while you can—he might play on for a few years yet but everything he represents is already a relic.

  • Marrero himself was hardly a “cup of coffee” relic or a minor character belatedly retrieved from the dustbin of baseball history.

  • No one who visits Salisbury will forget Stonehenge, the most remarkable relic of prehistoric man to be found in Britain.

  • A relic, saved no doubt from the wreck of the Abbaye de Chelles, stood like an ornament on the chimney-piece.

  • The Tuscan people set great store by the possession of this relic, and have engraved a representation of it upon their coins.

  • This is, perhaps, almost beneath the dignity of the love-story, but we have to regard it as a relic.

  • The Bourg is empty and dark, steeped in black shadows at the door of the chapel where the relic has been laid to rest.