anachronism
时代错误
definition
noun
everything was as it would have appeared in centuries past apart from one anachronism, a bright yellow construction crane
a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.
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the town is a throwback to medieval times, an 'anachronism' that has survived the passing years
He must also ask this question to avoid the error of 'anachronism' (or ‘presentism’ as some historians call it).
everything was as it would have appeared in centuries past apart from one 'anachronism', a bright yellow construction crane
it is 'anachronism' to suppose that the official morality of the age was mere window dressing
It's littered with 'anachronism' and it borders on profane ideas riddled as they are with holes.
Usually you will find me with my head in a book muttering at the unreality and 'anachronism' in some flouncy, Austen thing.
In the course of discussing this last category, he directly engaged the topic of 'anachronism' .
This awkward 'anachronism' came about when a couple of hundred prefabricated bungalows, built to house workers on an irrigation project in the 1960s, fell into disuse.
Thus the preface to the text informs us that to avoid 'anachronism' , ‘the entomology [sic] of the slang’ was carefully checked.
The pejorative charge of 'anachronism' as the inadmissible confusion of periods or eras presupposes that the accuser knows what the correct time of history is.
It could help to deflect the usual charges of 'anachronism' and unfamiliarity with the period.
Some might object that to push a modern idea such as ‘international system’ back into the past is to commit 'anachronism' .
In a world hurtling into a space-age, perhaps we need a bit of 'anachronism' , a place that exudes such history.
I delivered a paper on 'anachronism' and identification in Aristotle and Freud a million years ago at a conference in New York.
The claim put forward here is that all these kinds of 'anachronism' , good and bad, were grounded in a common way of thinking about artifacts and have to be dealt with together.
The principal themes of his fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative 'anachronism' .
Within the substitutional mode, 'anachronism' was neither an aberration nor a mere rhetorical device, but a structural condition of artifacts.
It's difficult to tell when this 'anachronism' is deliberate, and when it is merely a lack of writerly control.
The problem here - as with so much popular and scholarly debate on his work - is one of conceptual 'anachronism' .
Instead, he decided that 'anachronism' would be a major theme and encouraged the actors to avoid affecting British accents.
There is a major sin in history writing, that of 'anachronism' .
It is another 'anachronism' to think that the author of his plays must have been a nobleman.
Still, much of that probably stems from the dialogue, which is full of jarring shifts between period-speak and 'anachronisms' .
The film wears all its 'anachronisms' on its sleeve and evades any of the empty solemnity that is often associated with tales of love and sword fights.
These issues are rarely original with a particular opera, being historically, sometimes 'anachronistically' , exploited.
These groups would be at risk of becoming mere anecdotes; 'anachronisms' of a bygone time and a lifestyle that is passing.
How can you describe a pointless, 'anachronistic' voyage into the past?
The politicians as we know them are already 'anachronisms' .
When a character in a novel set in the 15th century uses a word, ‘taboo,’ that did not enter any European language until the 18th century, the attentive reader begins to look for 'anachronisms' .
A central problem of the book, however, one that dogs her work in general, is the sense that her approach is 'anachronistically' stranded on some distant critical shore.
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