relic
noun /ˈrelɪk/
/ˈrelɪk/
- relic (of/from something) an object, a tradition, a system, etc. that has survived from the past
遗物；遗迹；遗风；遗俗 - The building stands as the last remaining relic of the town's cotton industry.
这座建筑物是小镇棉纺业仅存的遗迹。 - Videotapes may already seem like relics of a bygone era.
录像带似乎已成为过去时代的遗物。 - The pictures on the walls were relics from the days before her marriage.
墙上的画是她婚前的遗物。 - Our transportation system is a relic of the past.
我们的运输系统是过去的遗迹。
Topics Historyc2- He seemed to view her as a quaint relic of the past.
他似乎把她看成别致的老古董。 - It was the last relic of the old system.
这是旧体制最后的残余。 - Most of these guns are relics from the Boer War.
这些枪支大部份都是布尔战争的遗物。 - They believe that hunting is a relic of the past and are calling for it to be banned.
他们认为狩猎是旧时的遗俗，因而要求予以禁止。 - This silver belt buckle is the only relic of the battle that survives.
这个银质皮带扣是唯一存留下来的战争遗物。 - a relic of the time when people hunted their own food
靠自己打猎获取食物时代的遗俗 - a relic of the time when people travelled by horse and carriage
骑马和坐马车时代的遗俗 - relics of a bygone age
以往年代的遗风
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- ancient
- last
- quaint
- …
- discover
- unearth
- preserve
- …
- survive
- relic from
- a relic of an age
- a relic of a time
- a relic of the past
- …
- The building stands as the last remaining relic of the town's cotton industry.
- a part of the body or clothing of a holy person, or something that they owned, that is kept after their death and respected as a religious object
圣髑；圣骨；圣人遗物 - holy relics
圣人遗物
Topics Religion and festivalsc2- The relics were discovered in a lead box in the ruins of an abbey.
在一所修道院的废墟中发现了装在铅盒里的圣髑。 - The duke secretly removed the relics from the reliquary.
公爵秘密地将圣髑从圣髑盒里拿了出来。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- ancient
- last
- quaint
- …
- discover
- unearth
- preserve
- …
- survive
- relic from
- a relic of an age
- a relic of a time
- a relic of the past
- …
- holy relics
词源Middle English: from Old French relique (originally plural), from Latin reliquiae feminine plural (used as a noun) of reliquus ‘remaining’, based on linquere ‘to leave’.