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单词 ancient history
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ancient history

1. uncountable noun
Ancient history is the history of ancient civilizations, especially Greece and Rome.
2. uncountable noun
If you describe something as ancient history, you mean that it happened in the past and is no longer relevant to the present.
It does not bother me now at all. It is all ancient history.

ancient history in British English

noun
1. 
the history of the ancient world from the earliest known civilizations to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 ad
2.  informal
a recent event or fact sufficiently familiar to have lost its pertinence

ancient history in American English

1. 
history from the earliest recorded events to the end of the Western Roman Empire in a.d. 476
2.  Informal
something of the recent past that is well known or no longer important

Examples of 'ancient history' in a sentence
ancient history

But all that is ancient history now.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The thrill of watching rival superpowers vying to hurtle their astronauts towards the planets now seems like ancient history.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
That now seems like ancient history.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Still, all ancient history now, clearly.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Today the Berlin Wall seems like something from ancient history.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
As far as I was concerned it was now ancient history, time to move on.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
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