| 释义 |
pre-aˈtomic, a.
[pre- B. 1.]
Existing or occurring before the utilization of atomic energy or atomic weapons; characteristic of such a time.
1914H. G. Wells World set Free iii. 141 Originally he had been something of a thinker upon international politics,..but the atomic bombs had taken him by surprise and he had still to recover completely from his pre-atomic opinions. 1945R. A. Knox God & Atom ii. 28 The ladder that is meant to climb heaven from our front door⁓step climbs it, instead, from a period world which only history recaptures for us. It is definitely pre-Atomic. 1945N.Y. Times 12 Aug. 8 e/4 To talk about limited, almost parochial pre-atomic subjects, there is the important war of 1914–18. 1956A. Toynbee Historian's Approach to Relig. 215 It [sc. the world] has already experienced two devastating pre-atomic wars in one lifetime. |