单词 | anachronism |
释义 | a·nach·ro·nism ![]() n. 1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order. 2. One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time: "A new age had plainly dawned, an age that made the institution of a segregated picnic seem an anachronism" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) [French anachronisme, from New Latin anachronismus, from Late Greek anakhronismos, from anakhronizesthai, to be an anachronism : Greek ana-, ana- + Greek khronizein, to take time (from khronos, time).] a·nach′ro·nistic, a·nachro·nous (-nəs) adj. a·nach′ro·nisti·cal·ly, a·nachro·nous·ly adv. |
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