relic
遗迹,遗物,遗留物,残余物
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Definitions
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- : a surviving memorial of something past.
- : an object having interest by reason of its age or its association with the past: a museum of historic relics.
- : a surviving trace of something: a custom that is a relic of paganism.
- : relics, remaining parts or fragments.the remains of a deceased person.
- : something kept in remembrance; souvenir; memento.
- : Ecclesiastical. the body, a part of the body, or some personal memorial of a saint, martyr, or other sacred person, preserved as worthy of veneration.
- : a once widespread linguistic form that survives in a limited area but is otherwise obsolete.
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Examples
He would become a keeper of junkyards—overgrown lost worlds of relic chariots.
Today Friedman’s doctrine, like many relics of the 1970s, is viewed as a bit of a cartoon.
Most notably, Switzerland completely overhauled its epidemic law, a relic from 1886.
It’s one of the most amusing ongoing appendage-measuring contests in media, a relic of the TV era and an example of how the fiercest battles are often fought over the most inconsequential things.
One thing that’s keeping them alive is relic organic matter deposited from the ocean in an earlier geologic era.
Blues music is often treated like a museum piece, a relic from a bygone day, but this band will make you want to get up and dance.
Orphans is a true literary relic: a small shapely paperback that is tough to track down, thanks to a limited print run.
And then Further is gone, back on the road, like a time-traveling relic from another era or an apparition of Jerry Garcia.
Enjoy Messi while you can—he might play on for a few years yet but everything he represents is already a relic.
Marrero himself was hardly a “cup of coffee” relic or a minor character belatedly retrieved from the dustbin of baseball history.
No one who visits Salisbury will forget Stonehenge, the most remarkable relic of prehistoric man to be found in Britain.