Antediluvian
Antediluvian 是一个形容词。它的夸张程度比 old-fashioned 高得多,通常用来讽刺某种观点或设备已经老掉牙了。
- My grandfather has some antediluvian ideas about how to raise children. (我祖父在如何抚养孩子方面有一些陈旧过时的想法。)
- The hotel’s computers were antediluvian and kept crashing. (酒店的电脑已经老掉牙了,经常死机。)
- In this digital age, paper filing systems seem positively antediluvian. (在这个数字时代,纸质存档系统似乎极其过时。)
- 前缀:
ante-(在前,如 anterior) - 词根:
-diluv-(洪水,如 deluge) - 含义:大洪水(诺亚方舟时期)之前的。
记:ante- (前) + diluv (联想 deluge 洪水)。比大洪水还早的东西,那得有多老!
Compared to the new smartphone, his old flip phone looked like an antediluvian relic. (与新款智能手机相比,他的旧翻盖手机看起来就像是史前遗物。)