relic
遗迹
definition
noun
The saddle no longer looked like an interesting historical relic but an instrument of torture.
an object surviving from an earlier time, especially one of historical or sentimental interest.
translation of 'relic'
noun
废墟,
遗迹
example
the supermodel has become an embarrassing 'relic' from the early 1990s
What is so important about her is that even at the age of 92, she is no 'relic' of the early twentieth century but continues to be a prolific commentator on her world.
To them, Sonny was an anachronism, a 'relic' from a primitive time when the locomotive was technology's cutting edge.
The holy 'relic' is believed to protect the 25 sq. km. former Portuguese colony, on the doorstep of China, from natural disasters.
I hope also to show that perennial philosophy is not an historical 'relic' , a cast-off from an alien time, fit only for the cramped exegesis of modern historians of ideas.
The award is something of a quaint 'relic' - freemen have the right to graze sheep on common ground.
No longer a ‘basic sauce’, the demi-glace is now considered to be a 'relic' of an archaic form of cookery referred to respectfully as cuisine classique but no longer practised.
The doctors who were tending to the Pope during his final hours are auctioning off a sample of the Pope's blood as a holy 'relic' .
Coombs was a 'relic' of an earlier, gentler time, when the privacy of public officials (even politicians) was normally regarded as sacrosanct.
The saddle no longer looked like an interesting historical 'relic' but an instrument of torture.
In Scotland, however, the old code remained legal and came to be viewed simultaneously as a 'relic' of outmoded ways of life and as a sign of modernity.
But in election year 2004, the film views like a historical 'relic' .
Indeed, there is a 'relic' in the historical museum of the University of Lund which is said to be a piece of the tree under which the Holy Family rested on their famous journey.
By the 1840s, however, there was growing interest in antiques, and this bowl may well have been given to the church as a historical 'relic' .
The 65,000-square-foot structure was a 'relic' of the 1970s, designed to house the post office's old computer system.
The violence he remembered was no local riot: it was part of a chain of violence that had been set off by the theft of a holy 'relic' from the Hazrat Bal mosque in 1964.
It, in a sense, is a 'relic' of an earlier age of procedure.
Even more tragic is the loss of thousands of cultural and historical 'relics' .
And today, the United Nations has declared cities that have preserved 'relics' of that era as World Heritage Sites.
Their great old houses overflow with rough medieval furniture, threadbare tapestries and religious 'relics' worn smooth by the touch of generations.
He could invoke saints and employ 'relics' , sprinkle holy water and exorcise the devil.
These holy 'relics' were keenly sought after as the people saw their purchase as a way of pleasing God.
Almost all the early Egyptian 'relics' in England were brought back by travellers.
Narrow staircases lead to vast, warehouse-sized chambers, and 'relics' are scattered about the place.
Some worry that after 96 years its members have become disengaged, its methods anachronistic 'relics' of 1960s protest.
Instead of being regarded with panic or horror, these 'relics' are reverenced.
He and his type would be regarded as living fossils, 'relics' of an earlier era.
Among the treasured 'relics' of Bill's Air Force sporting career is a timber trophy, which he refers to as his ‘big egg cup’.
But you can also see it in the hint of a new cinema born from the 'relics' of its own history.
Both men support the proposal for a military museum in Geraldton where such 'relics' will be displayed.
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