| 单词 | ahistorical |
| 释义 | ahistorical (once / 369354 pages) adj Something that's ahistorical completely ignores or disregards the history or tradition that came before it. An ahistorical review of a movie would leave out any references to influential films and directors. An ahistorical political outlook can be misguided or even dangerous, because it doesn't take the lessons of the past into account. People who are nostalgic about the past are often taking an ahistorical perspective, choosing not to think about advances in civil and human rights through history. The word ahistorical dates from 1950, combining a, "not," and historical, "concerning past events." WORD FAMILYhistorical: ahistorical, historically, historicalness, prehistorical+/historian: historians/history: historian, historic, historical, historicism, histories, prehistory/prehistoric: prehistorically/prehistory: prehistoric USAGE EXAMPLESBut in reality, they are specious, ahistorical, and counterproductive. Slate(Dec 19, 2016) Understanding Venezuela’s failing state as just another failure of socialism, and of statism generally, is ahistorical. The New Yorker(Nov 06, 2016) The implication of a baton having been passed is ahistorical, and very silly. The New Yorker(Oct 03, 2016) adj unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition Ant historical of or relating to the study of history |
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