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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。

  1. 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。)
  2. The hotel’s computers were antediluvian and kept crashing. (酒店的电脑已经老掉牙了,经常死机。)
  3. 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。)