archaic
archaic 英 [ɑ:ˈkeɪɪk] 美 [ɑrˈkeɪɪk]
adj. 古代的；陈旧的；古体的；古色古香的
- If you use the adjective archaic you are referring to something outmoded, belonging to an earlier period. Rotary phones and cassette players already seem so archaic!
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- adj. 古代的；陈旧的；古体的；古色古香的
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1. And I feel like it's archaic in a way that it's a long list of stuff sorted by date and time or sender, and we waste so much time sorting.
我认为在某种程度上来说，电子邮件非常陈旧，因为它按日期和时间或发件人列出一长串资料，我们要浪费很多时间去排序。
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2. Water supply, sewage disposal, housing, epidemics and the disposal of the dead were high on a long list of problems that swamped the resources of an archaic system of local government.
一长串问题让当地政府陈旧的资源体系不堪重负，而供水系统、污水处理、住宅、流行病和尸体处置这些都是最亟待解决的问题。
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3. When you think about the fact that we have a permanently manned space station and the Internet, using plastic cards with pictures on them to officially identify ourselves seems a bit archaic.
人们思考一下，我们处在建立人居住永久太空站和互联网时代，如果我们仍采用有相片塑料卡确认自己身份，是否似乎有点陈旧。
- archaic (adj.) 1810, from or by influence of French archaique (1776), ultimately from Greek arkhaikos "old-fashioned," from arkhaios "ancient, old-fashioned, antiquated, primitive," from arkhe "beginning" (see archon). Not merely crude, the archaic has "a rudeness and imperfection implying the promise of future advance" [Century Dictionary]. Archaical is attested from 1799.
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