| 单词 | ancient-looking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasancient-looking a. With present participles, forming adjectives in which ancient expresses the complement of the underlying verb, as in ancient-looking, ancient-sounding, etc. ΚΠ 1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 20 To drinke from the mixt confluence of so many corrupt, and poysonous waters, as tradition would have perswaded him to by most ancient seeming authorities. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 27 He presently returned with a very ancient-looking bottle. 1902 W. N. Harben Abner Daniel v. 36 It was near the ancient-looking brick car-shed under which the trains of two main lines ran. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 30 Oct. ii. 34/2 He had invented a style at once ancient-sounding and contemporary. < as lemmas |
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