antiquity
antiquity 英 [ænˈtɪkwəti] 美 [ænˈtɪkwɪti]
n. 高龄；古物；古代的遗物
名词复数:antiquities
- If you find an antiquity, call a museum: you just found something very old. Antiquity can also mean the idea of oldness.
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- n. 高龄；古物；古代的遗物
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1. The museum contains the remains of Chinese antiquity.
博物馆藏有中国古代的遗物。
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2. All this sylvan antiquity, however, though visible from the Slopes, was outside the immediate boundaries of the estate.
但是，所有这些古老的森林，虽然从山坡上可以看见，但是却已经超越这片产业的边界了。
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3. In antiquity, their bulk also allowed them to become mobile fortresses, capable of carrying soldiers and archers on their backs.
在古代，大象的庞大身躯使它成为移动堡垒，大象有能力在它背上运载士兵和弓箭手。
- antiquity (n.) late 14c., "olden times," from Old French antiquitet (11c.; Modern French antiquité) "olden times; great age; old age," from Latin antiquitatem (nominative antiquitas) "ancient times, antiquity, venerableness," noun of quality from stem of antiquus "ancient, of olden times; long in existence" (see antique (adj.)). Specific reference to ancient Greece and Rome is from mid-15c.; meaning "quality of being old" is from about the same time. Antiquities "relics of ancient days" is from 1510s.
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