| 单词 | anachronism |
| 释义 | anachronism (once / 3922 pages) n An anachronism is something that doesn't fit its time period, like if you say you'll "dial" your smartphone. Anachronism comes from the Greek roots ana- which means "against" and chron- which means "time." Together they represent a situation in which something happens that should not because it belongs to another time period. You see anachronisms all the time in the movies — they occur when you see a jet fly over a Civil War battle! Or knights jousting over a maiden during the time of Shakespeare! WORD FAMILYanachronism: anachronisms, anachronistic+/anachronic: anachronism/anachronistic: anachronistically USAGE EXAMPLESIt is an anachronism, a deeply undemocratic product of a compromise with slave states that serves no real purpose today. Slate(Dec 19, 2016) Wellmon avoids anachronism but does not shrink from suggesting lessons for our own time. Time(Dec 07, 2016) This stark absence underscores both a shift in consumer patterns and the precious anachronism of what few holiday windows remain. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1n something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred Syn|Hyper misdating, mistiming timekeeping the act or process of determining the time 2n an artifact that belongs to another time Hyper artefact, artifact a man-made object taken as a whole 3n a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age Hyper anomaly, unusual person a person who is unusual |
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