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antediluvian ['æntidi'lu:viən]
基本释义
- a. 大洪水前的,上古的,古风的
n. 大洪水以前的人,很老的人,老古董
词形变化
- 名 词:an'te·di·lu'vi·an
英英解释
2个名词解释
- any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
[同] antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch - a very old person
[同] ancient, antediluvian
2个形容词解释
- of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
[同] antediluvial, antediluvian
[例]- antediluvian man
- so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
[同] antediluvian, antiquated, archaic
[例]- a ramshackle antediluvian tenement
- antediluvian ideas
- archaic laws
- any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge