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 antiquity [æn'tikwәti]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 古老, 古代, 古代人, 古物

  1. There are many legends about the heroes of antiquity.
    有许多关于古代英雄的传说。
  2. Mexico's handicap is not so much her youth as the antiquity of her Spanish traditions, which have not managed to march with the times.
    墨西哥的不利因素与其说是其活力不足,不如说是落后于时代的古老西班牙传统太强,这些老传统赶不上时代潮流。
  3. An island of eastern Greece in the Aegean Sea off the western coast of Turkey. It was noted in antiquity for its school of epic poets.
    希俄斯岛希腊东部岛屿,位于土耳其西海岸外的爱琴海中。在古代因有一群史诗诗人而著名


antiquity
[ noun ]
  1. the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe

  2. <noun.time>
  3. extreme oldness

  4. <noun.attribute>
  5. an artifact surviving from the past

  6. <noun.artifact>


Antiquity \An*tiq"ui*ty\, n.; pl. {Antiquities}. [L. antiquitas,
fr. antiquus: cf. F. antiquit['e]. See {Antique}.]
1. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as,
a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great
antiquity.

2. Old age. [Obs.]

It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about
you blasted with antiquity? --Shak.

3. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as,
Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

4. The ancients; the people of ancient times.

That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity
has ?vowed. --Sir W.
Raleigh.

5. An old gentleman. [Obs.]

You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench. --B.
Jonson.

6. A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a
statue, etc.; an ancient institution.

Note: [In this sense, usually in the plural.] ``Heathen
antiquities.'' --Bacon.

  1. The Renaissance brought renewed interest in classical antiquity and spawned a new breed of rich and passionate collectors and patrons like the papacy, the Medicis, and Lorenzo the Magnificent.
  2. And he thought Chaucer "obscene and contemptible: he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity."
  3. "Photographs" from antiquity of a Roman empress, Hadrian's lover Antinous and various slaves and private citizens go on exhibit Thursday on their first trip outside Italy.
  4. In antiquity, rabies was one of many diseases blamed on worms - relatives of the poet William Blake's 'invisible worm that flies in the night.'
  5. What was classic jazz in 1955 has now become 20th-century antiquity.
  6. His interest in the art of antiquity led him toward Italy.
  7. Of the nine planets now known to be circling the sun, six had been known since antiquity.
  8. This lust for the monuments of antiquity touched almost every Flemish and Dutch painter worth his colors, with the most honorable exception of Lucas, who never strayed very far from Leyden.
  9. Korea has from antiquity had a centralized government; there is no tradition of sharing power with local governments, labor unions, private foundations and the like.
  10. Mikulic blamed what he termed "the antiquity, lack of flexibility and inefficiency" of the current economic system for the crisis but rejected any immediate need for political reform.
  11. This kind of catastrophe, so common in antiquity, had never happened before in a great modern country, and so there are no models for tackling it.
  12. There is more to recommend TCC as an Open host than its antiquity or the bloodlines of its members.
  13. Of a similar antiquity, these knives also are alpine in origin and they are impressively functional. The handle is wood, the curved blade high-carbon steel.
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