relic 的定义
- 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.
relic 近义词
something saved from the past
更多relic例句
- 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.