artifact
artifact 英 ['ɑ:təˌfækt] 美 [ˈɑrtəˌfækt]
n. 人工制品；手工艺品
名词复数:artifacts
- An artifact is a man-made object that has some kind of cultural significance. If you find a 12th-century vase, it's an artifact of that time. Don't drop it!
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- n. 人工制品；手工艺品
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1. the most analyzed artifact in archaeology.
考古学中被分析得最多的手工艺品。
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2. a rather curious artifact
一件相当可疑的人工制品
- artifact (n.) 1821, artefact, "artificial production, anything made or modified by human art," from Italian artefatto, from Latin arte "by skill" (ablative of ars "art;" see art (n.)) + factum "thing made," from facere "to make, do" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put"). The word is attested in German from 1791. The English spelling with -i- is attested by 1884, by influence of the Latin stem (as in artifice). Originally a word in anatomy to denote artificial conditions caused by operation, etc.; archaeological application in English dates from 1885 (in German from 1875).
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