| 词汇 | time-honored |
| 释义 | time-honored adjective[ before noun ] us/ˈtaɪmˌɑː.nɚd/uk /ˈtaɪmˌɒn.əd/ A time-honored tradition, practice, or method is respected because it has been done or used in the same way for many years: humorousThe developers dealt with the problem in the time-honored fashion/way, burying the industrial waste in landfill sites. Admirable and admired admirable admirably awe-inspiring awe-inspiringly awesome estimably exemplarily exemplary favourable glorious laudably meritorious meritoriously noted praiseworthy vaunted venerable venerably worthily worthy time-honored | American Dictionarytime-honored adjective us/ˈtɑɪm ˌɑn·ərd/ considered important because of having existed for many years: Family Thanksgiving dinners are a time-honored tradition. Examples of time-honoredtime-honored This type of rhetoric can lead toward an emptiness of moral meaning; the constant reinvention of principle weakens the firm quality of time-honored ideals. In this the radio was simply a new instrument for a time-honored purpose. Although the government had a time-honored policy against squatting, it was clearly unenforceable. The way in which public economics has repeatedly dragged the time-honored rule of utilitarianism into welfare discussions is a case in point. One of the most relevant political implications of their ethic was a time-honored right of self-medication. This new research has been particularly important in that it has problematized time-honored beliefs about the social role of the interpreter. Detailed analysis of transcripts is a time-honored practice among linguistic ethnographers. On the contrary, the former can facilitate the emergence of a new domain by embedding it with the reproduction of time-honored patterns of social exchanges. One possible answer is that the state policies were vestiges of time-honored charter authority, while similar federal efforts were not. The trend is away from the time-honored "rule" of dropping e before suffixes beginning with vowels, and keeping it before those beginning with consonants. Most comments deal in time-honored fashion with style, use and function. The time-honored constitutional procedure for this follows one of two methods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In this intensive, immersion curriculum students learn time-honored techniques of drawing and painting. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These are the time-honored notions, the traditional concepts, but even the most respectable of fallacies can not withstand the truth forever. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This ceremony is a time-honored tradition in which the students and faculty wear their academic regalia. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of time-honored 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. |
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