英语词汇“sham-ancient”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

C1. Prefixed to other adjectives, as sham-ancient, sham-dead, sham-serious, sham-Tudor; also with nouns forming compounds used attributively, as sham-twist.

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1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 303 He who has once seen into this, has seen the difference of the True from the Sham-True.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. v. 42 It is not governed by the wisest it has..but by the sham-wisest.

1847 C. G. F. Gore Castles in Air (1857) ix. 69 A suite of sham-ancient steam-carved furniture.

1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets i. 26 My Christian friends, and indeed my Sham-Christian and Anti-Christian, and all manner of men, are invited to reflect on this.

1880 E. Maitland in Encycl. Brit. XI. 279/2 A sham-twist [gun-] barrel..[which] has all the appearance of a genuine twisted barrel.

1889 ‘F. Anstey’ Pariah iii. viii The shabby little sham-marble mantle-piece was draped with embroidered cloth.

1909 Nation May 153/2 To this agitation we apply the term sham-serious.

1934 Discovery Oct. 304/1 It cannot be long before the incongruity of the sham-Tudor house with the 1934 interior is generally recognised.

1945 Archit. Rev. Nov. 124/3 Westcombe Park Road..shows an early tendency towards those ornamental features which long afterwards gave the names of ‘sham Tudor’ and ‘Jacobethan’ to a rather pathetic phase in domestic design.

1970 T. Hughes Crow 53 So in one hand he held a sham-dead spider.

单词	sham-ancient
释义	> as lemmas sham-ancient C1. Prefixed to other adjectives, as sham-ancient, sham-dead, sham-serious, sham-Tudor; also with nouns forming compounds used attributively, as sham-twist. ΚΠ 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 303 He who has once seen into this, has seen the difference of the True from the Sham-True. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. v. 42 It is not governed by the wisest it has..but by the sham-wisest. 1847 C. G. F. Gore Castles in Air (1857) ix. 69 A suite of sham-ancient steam-carved furniture. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets i. 26 My Christian friends, and indeed my Sham-Christian and Anti-Christian, and all manner of men, are invited to reflect on this. 1880 E. Maitland in Encycl. Brit. XI. 279/2 A sham-twist [gun-] barrel..[which] has all the appearance of a genuine twisted barrel. 1889 ‘F. Anstey’ Pariah iii. viii The shabby little sham-marble mantle-piece was draped with embroidered cloth. 1909 Nation May 153/2 To this agitation we apply the term sham-serious. 1934 Discovery Oct. 304/1 It cannot be long before the incongruity of the sham-Tudor house with the 1934 interior is generally recognised. 1945 Archit. Rev. Nov. 124/3 Westcombe Park Road..shows an early tendency towards those ornamental features which long afterwards gave the names of ‘sham Tudor’ and ‘Jacobethan’ to a rather pathetic phase in domestic design. 1970 T. Hughes Crow 53 So in one hand he held a sham-dead spider. extracted from shamn.¹adj. < as lemmas
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