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過時的人（或風俗、思想）
- The monarchy is seen by many people as an anachronism in the modern world.很多人認爲君主制在現代世界不合時宜。
- She said nuclear weapons were an anachronism in the post cold war era.她說核武器是後冷戰時代的時代錯誤。
[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弄錯年代；時代錯誤
- The book is full of anachronisms which suggests there were parts rewritten in later centuries.這本書充滿了時代錯誤，表明在後來的幾個世紀裏有一些部分被重寫了。
- the charges of anachronism levelled against the film對這部電影的時代錯誤的指控
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Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Greek anakhronismos, from ana- ‘backwards’ + khronos ‘time’.