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词汇 anachronism
释义 anachronism
noun[ C ]
uk /əˈnæk.rə.nɪ.zəm/ us /əˈnæk.rə.nɪ.zəm/
a person, thing, or idea that exists out of its time in history, especially one that happened or existed later than the period being shown, discussed, etc.: 时代错误,年代误植,不合时代的人(或物)
For some people, marriage is an anachronism from the days when women needed to be protected.对一些人来说,婚姻是妇女需要受保护的时代的产物,而现在已经不合时宜了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Relating to time
anachronistic
anachronistically
chronological
chronologically
chronology
contemporarily
contemporary
cut into something
dateless
dendrochronology
retroaction
retroactively
retrospective
retrospectively
synchronically
time loop
timeline
timing
twin
way back

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anachronism | American Dictionary


anachronism
noun[ C ]
us/əˈnæk·rəˌnɪz·əm/
someone or something placed in the wrong period in history, or something that belongs to the past rather than the present:
For a historical drama, the movie was filled with anachronisms.

anachronistic


adjectiveus/əˌnæk·rəˈnɪs·tɪk/
He uses only e-mail, never anachronistic regular mail.

Examples of anachronism


anachronism
During this period of transcription, perhaps certain anachronisms and historical inaccuracies may have crept into the text.
Most progressive composers must surely have regarded such string symphonies as heard here - all of which were composed between c1740 and c1755 - as an anachronism.
A slight, but nonetheless exasperating weakness lies in the glut of anachronisms peppering the prose of the book.
This sweeping chrononology does not mean excessive anachronism either.
Most, in fact, would reject it vigorously as an anachronism.
But even more powerful than the curtain - which is becoming almost an anachronism in the contemporary theatre - is the door.
In their fantastic anachronisms, these stories transfer the pure primitive state from the realm of anthropological conjecture to the stage of colonial adventure.
To discuss "secularization" and "professionalization" of science before the nineteenth century is, by general consensus, to flirt with anachronism.
Before taking stock of early modern representations of the female intellect, a word about terminology and its load of anachronism is in order.
Although something of an anachronism, the typology is still a useful categorisation of the villagers' family support systems.
The resulting texture created resembles a strange rural-urban blend, a sort of heterophonic tutti which is hard to grasp in its eclectic anachronism.
The theme of this article is that computers have changed the world of mathematics forever, in the process making proof an anachronism.
This is an approach which avoids the appalling reductionism perpetrated in the name of psychohistory, but it cannot completely deflect accusations of anachronism.
Next are the 'faux savants', all wearing gold spectacles; claiming science to be infallible, they chant contemporary scientific words with obvious anachronism.
Such readings may serve a useful political purpose, but proceed from essentialist assumptions and are therefore susceptible to accusations of anachronism.
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