archaic

1 “To my mind,” the narrator says in the weirdly archaic diction that marks this novel, “he who turns his back on town is as prone as anyone to become evil’s eager and ignorant sponge.”

2 And archaic attitudes are endemic in a lot of motoring journalism.

3 It's a difficult book or ritual sacrifice, archaic rules and miraculous happenings.

4 A third wall looked like a pharmacist’s shelf, and the fourth wall held more archaic objects.

5 She is both mortal and goddess, smiling archaic personage and merchant's wife.

6 They're lighter than meringue, usually revolving around what I assume to be childhood preoccupations of the 1940s, but are now just archaic curiosities: marble games, soapbox derbies, radio quiz shows, etc.

7 These days, the word sounds archaic any way you say it: Most people use forbid as a past or present-tense verb.

8 The darkness and blurring created by this archaic process add to the elegiac mood.

9 Later the same month Gingerich came across some archaic whale specimens in museums in Lucknow and Kolkata (Calcutta), India.

同月，金格里奇在印度勒克瑙(Lucknow)和加尔各答(Kolkata)的博物馆里偶然看到了古代鲸鱼标本。

10 Any large-scale human cooperation—whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe—is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination.

11 The dialect includes archaic "thees" and "thous," a wealth of seafaring vocabulary, and an aspirate "h" either added or subtracted to everyday words.

12 So many of our archaic traditions and rules need to be challenged.

13 The harmonies produced are raw and archaic, the pace unrelenting and the dynamic range fixed between loud and louder still.

14 Historical dramas like “The Tudors” or “John Adams” sift through a remote, archaic culture to highlight the most familiar and contemporary concerns of historical characters.

15 “The present authorities have gone back to a discourse on culture that is very archaic, and they do not consider new wave cinema as being ‘representative’ of Romania.”

16 “Either you have hair or you don’t have hair. And if you don’t, here’s this archaic brand with a man on the beach with linen pants and he’s going to help you.”

17 Edith is a girl with archaic smiles, we really like her.

她是一个端庄的美女, 人们发自内心的赞叹.

18 He’s often singled out for his ability to toggle between the postbop center and an experimental fringe, but when left to his own devices he tends to make those distinctions feel archaic.

19 Now, it seemed, Russia itself was being portrayed as a ‘primitive’ society, lodged in the Western mind as an archaic peasant culture.

20 And nothing was so irritating as the confident way he used archaic idiom.

没什么比他使用过时的方言时那种自负的神态更气人的了。

1 古风

antique primitive outdated antediluvian archaistic archaism ancientry

2 古代的

old ancient palae- old-world antique olden palaeo- early grey Early gray horse-and-buggy

3 旧式

conservative primitive dated mid-Victorian of the old school

4 古

ancient

5 陈旧的

stale old tired crusted time-worn moth-eaten passé hoary shop-soiled fossil antique old-fashioned rusty antiquated well-worn creaky hoar Godwottery superannuate outdated dated corny ageing decrepit hack obsolete threadbare worm-eaten shopworn time worn

6 古体

archaism

7 早期的

primary primitive primal primeval incipient early

8 原始

original rude primitive pristine savage primal primordial barbaric homely primeval unadjusted ur- proto- nonliterate primigenial primogenial principial primary prime raw crude Germinal chthonic gutty paleo- pale- originality archi-

9 古的

ancient

10 古老的

old ancient antique aged age-old immemorial auld medieval mossy crusted hoar antiquity old as the hills

11 陈旧

old tired hoary passe moth-eaten shop-soiled fossil antique old-fashioned rusty antiquated well-worn creaky time-worn hoar passé Godwottery superannuate take the bloom off outdated dated corny obsolescence behind the times stale ageing decrepit decrepitude hack obsolete threadbare worm-eaten shopworn time worn

12 废弃

waste abandoned inactive obsolete deserted disused outworn obsolescence disuse dereliction

13 废弃的

waste abandoned inactive obsolete deserted disused outworn

14 古代

old ancient antiquity palae- old-world antique olden eld palaeo- early grey ancientry remote ages Early gray horse-and-buggy

15 旧式的

conservative primitive dated mid-Victorian of the old school

16 古风的

antique primitive outdated antediluvian archaistic

17 老式的

elderly antique outdated old-fashioned antiquated outmoded crusted olde démodé old-fangled out of date vieux jeu olde worlde

18 早期

early primary primitive primal primeval incipient morning youth

19 早已过时的

antediluvian

20 过时的

dowdy fusty dead elderly medieval antique outdated obsolete old-fashioned prehistoric geriatric antiquated bygone outmoded mouldy outworn rinky-dink untrendy horse-and-buggy passé démodé life-expired out of date dead letter played out informal cold dated clunky out-of-date anachronistic obsolescent played-out superannuated moth-eaten old hat corny unfashionable out past its sell by date

21 原始的

original rude primitive pristine savage primal primordial barbaric homely primeval unadjusted ur- nonliterate primigenial primogenial principial primary prime raw crude Germinal chthonic gutty archi-

22 过时

cold dead outdated obsolete old-fashioned dated clunky out-of-date anachronistic outmoded dowdy obsolescent played-out outworn superannuated moth-eaten passé dowdiness date old hat démodé antiquated corny unfashionable fusty out obsolescence come out of the ark past its sell by date