| 单词 | to be stuck in a time warp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be stuck (also trapped, etc.) in a time warp 2. A place which has not changed with the passage of time; a situation in which things are preserved in a form which they characteristically took in the past, but which is now rarely seen or no longer relevant. Frequently in to be stuck (also trapped, etc.) in a time warp: to be stuck in the past. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness staleness1552 surannation1656 superannuation1658 antiquation1659 fustinessa1661 antiquateness1664 antiquatedness1730 superannuity1781 innovelty1783 old-fashionedness1817 square-toedness1846 fossilism1861 obsolescence1887 old-timiness1887 frumpishness1889 old-fangledness1895 out-of-dateness1915 datedness1933 outdatedness1953 time warp1965 1965 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 25 Nov. 18/1 The main thing is that Rhodesians are caught in a time warp. 1973 T. McGuane 92 in Shade (1974) 95 It's just a little American home in another time warp. 1978 Sat. Night (Toronto) Apr. 30/3 External was stuck in a 1950s timewarp. 1983 Listener 3 Nov. 32/3 Molly Kean's images are of psychic rather than physical decay, of families able to live beyond their means because they are trapped in a peculiar time-warp. 1996 Daily Mirror 12 June 6/1 He and his anti-European allies are stuck in a time-warp when Germans were jack-booted Nazis and Britain ruled the waves and an Empire. 2010 Ideal Home May 34/2 We didn't want to live in a time warp. < as lemmas |
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