archaic
英 [ɑ:ˈkeɪɪk] 美 [ɑrˈkeɪɪk]

adj.

古代的；过时的，陈旧的；古体的；古色古香的

英英释义

archaic[ ɑ:'keiik ]

• adj.
  • so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

    "archaic laws"

    同义词：antediluvianantiquated

  • little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

    "archaic forms of life"

    同义词：primitive

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. The students are seeing the archaic film.
   学生们在看那部古老的电影。
2. Their taste and style were archaic.
   他们的情趣与风格都是古老的。

权威例句

Archaic African and Asian lineages in the genetic ancestry of modern humans
A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic
Harding, R.M. et al. Archaic African and Asian lineages in the genetic ancestry of modern humans. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 60, 772−789
Traces of archaic mitochondrial lineages persist in Austronesian-speaking Formosan populations.
The shaping of modern human immune systems by multiregional admixture with archaic humans.
...Direct Contact between Modern and Archaic Humans
Genetic evidence for archaic admixture in Africa.
Myth of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations
Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by E. J. Hobsbawm
The archaic barbiturate hypnotics.