anachronism

noun

/əˈnækrənɪzəm/

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[countable] a person, a custom or an idea that seems old-fashioned and does not belong to the present过时的人（或风俗、思想）
- The monarchy is seen by many people as an anachronism in the modern world.很多人认为君主制在现代世界不合时宜。
- She said nuclear weapons were an anachronism in the post cold war era.她说核武器是后冷战时代的时代错误。
[countable, uncountable] something that is placed, for example in a book or play, in the wrong period of history; the fact of placing something in the wrong period of history弄错年代；时代错误
- The book is full of anachronisms which suggests there were parts rewritten in later centuries.这本书充满了时代错误，表明在后来的几个世纪里有一些部分被重写了。
- the charges of anachronism levelled against the film对这部电影的时代错误的指控
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Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Greek anakhronismos, from ana- ‘backwards’ + khronos ‘time’.