| 单词 | chronological |
| 释义 | chronological (once / 2542 pages) adj If you’re making a list of all your teachers in the order you had them, from kindergarten right up to the present, you’re listing them in chronological order. Chronological is the order in which things actually happened. Chronological doesn’t allow for time traveling or flashbacks. If you’re making a documentary of events leading up to World War II and you start in the early 1900s and end at the outbreak of the war, in 1939, that’s chronological. Reverse chronological order means giving the most recent event first, and going backwards from there. Chronological includes the useful Greek root khronos, "time." WORD FAMILYchronological: chronologically+/chronologize: chronologizing/chronology: chronological, chronologies, chronologise, chronologize USAGE EXAMPLESIt's an interesting format, working back from the PGA Championship to the Masters in chronological order. Golf Digest(Dec 28, 2016) “This is a population that appears much older than its chronological age,” Armstrong said. Washington Post(Dec 25, 2016) Bilott spent the next few months on the floor of his office, poring over the documents and arranging them in chronological order. New York Times(Jan 06, 2016) adj relating to or arranged according to temporal order chronological age |
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