| 词汇 | relic |
| 释义 | relic noun[ C ] uk /ˈrel.ɪk/ us /ˈrel.ɪk/ an object, tradition, or system from the past that continues to exist: 遗物；遗迹；遗风；遗俗 During the dig, the archaeological team found some relics from the Stone Age.在发掘过程中，考古队发现了一些石器时代的遗迹。 The country's employment system is a relic of the 1960s when jobs were scarce.这个国家的就业体制是20世纪60年代遗留的产物，那时工作机会非常少。 a part of the body or something that belonged to a holy person: 圣骨；圣物；圣徒遗物 These bones are the relics of a 12th-century saint.这些骸骨是一位12世纪圣徒的圣骨。 Things remaining (and) all the restidiom balance bastion be leftphrase cremains cutpiece deposit ground redoubt remainder remains remnant residual residually rest time capsule to the dregs unallocated unconsumed uneaten You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Religious objects relic | American Dictionaryrelic noun[ C ] us/ˈrel·ɪk/ an object from the past, esp. one that has no modern use but is often valued for its meaning or importance in history: The ship was a relic of the Spanish-American War. A relic is also a part of the body or clothing of a saint (= holy person), or something that belonged to a saint. Examples of relicrelic All of this liturgical and musical restructuring occurred in conjunction with a translation of relics, an architectural building site and even a hagiographic ' building site'. All the miracles occurred after the translation of the relics. They could be relics of either kin-group ancestors or comrades fallen in battle. As earlier techniques for the reproduction of kinship came under colonial attacks, the position of relics and body fragments experienced considerable displacements. Interchangeable vehicles of gifts and sacred forces varied from charms, witch-substance, relics and shrines, or the body of the ritual specialist him/herself. Obviously the reserves offer the possibility of preserving vast landscape relics but it concerns perforce more or less local patterns. In dunite pods, relics of olivine are set in ser pentine with some cumulus and intercumulus chromite. As such, they are also relics of an earlier age, old supernaturals who were power ful even before the present age began. Only then did certain icons emerge as objectives in their own right ; previously the icon seems to have been ancillary to relics at a shrine. Such views are relics of seventeenth- and nineteenth-century monisms and idealisms. He concludes that 'far from being relics of a barbarous age', fairs were resilient and adaptable with important retail and social functions. Founders of convents and monasteries did the same and even led expeditions to steal relics from cemeteries or religious institutions. A strong, monochromatic material presence related this new landscape to the surrounding historic, utilitarian relics. There is not even a record of where her body was buried, much less any indication that her relics were revered. In these processions, parishioners were directed by clergy and headed by a cross, relics and/or a parish banner. See all examples of relic These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withrelicrelicThese are words often used in combination with relic. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. cultural relics The museum houses a collection of valuable cultural relics. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. historical relic We shall become a backwater—an historical relic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 holy relic Oroe enters, opens the casket, and exclaims upon seeing it that it contains the holy relics of the dead king. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with relic |
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