喜樂美語

You can picture ancient as reaching far, far back in time — not just old, but belonging to an age thousands of years gone, like the stone ruins of Greece or Egypt that were already old long before anyone alive was born.

可以把 ancient 想成「一路往回追到很遠很遠的從前」——不只是舊，而是屬於幾千年前那個時代。核心畫面比較像希臘、埃及那些石砌的遺跡：在現在任何活著的人出生以前，它們就已經很老很老了。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

複數 ancients

意思相近

oldancient peoplesearlyage-oldprehistoricthe Greeks and Romanshistoriclong-standingantiquepeople of oldtimeworn

原始詞典資料11 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

ancientadj詞源 1/ˈeɪn.ʃənt/

  • 1

    Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.

    • an ancient city
    • an ancient forest
  • 2

    Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.

    • an ancient author
    • an ancient empire
  • 3

    historyhuman-sciencessciencesRelating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.

  • 4

    obsoleteExperienced; versed.

    • approved by the consent of the moste ancient doctors of the Churche [part of the book title]
  • 5

    obsoleteFormer; sometime.

    • They mourned their ancient leader lost.

ancientnoun詞源 1/ˈeɪn.ʃənt/

  • 1

    A person who is very old.

    • Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding and before the ancient was well upon his road his way was blocked by Hetty.
  • 2

    A person who lived in ancient times.

    • What is ancient for us was in its own time a reworking of what was ancient for the ancients.
  • 3

    lawOne of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.

  • 4

    obsoleteA senior; an elder; a predecessor.

    • Junius and Andronicus […] in Christianity […] were his ancients.

ancientnoun詞源 2/ˈeɪn.ʃənt/

  • 1

    archaicgovernmentheraldryhobbiesA flag, banner, standard or ensign.

    • [D]iſcarded, vniuſt ſeruingmen, yonger ſonnes to yonger brothers, reuolted tapſters, and Oſtlers, tradefalne, the cankers of a calme world, and a long peace, ten times more diſhonourable ragged then an olde fazd ancient, […]
    • I got all things ready as he had directed, and waited the next morning with the boat washed clean, her ancient and pendants out, and everything to accommodate his guests..
  • 2

    obsoleterareThe bearer of a flag; ensign.

    • I preſt mee none but such toſtes and butter with hearts in their bellies no bigger then pianes heades, and they haue bought out their ſeruices, and now my whole charge conſiſts of Ancients, Corporals, Lieutenants, gentlemen of companies: ſlaues as ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth, where the gluttons dogs licked his ſores, and ſuch as indeed were neuer ſouldiours, […]

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