Anachronism

(noun.) an artifact that belongs to another time.

(noun.) a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age.

(noun.) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred.

整理:佩吉

• You are too young--it is an anachronism for you to have such thoughts, said Will, energetically, with a quick shake of the head habitual to him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I am an anachronism in this dull, peaceful century, all gas and steam engines. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

录入:万斯