relics
遗物,遗迹,文物,遗留物
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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
Before preservationists could put a stop to it, he and other looters had raided and destroyed precious relics buried at the site.
Their captors wore palm leaves, leopard skins, and magical relics to make themselves immune to bullets.
Relics, paintings, ancient texts, and other links to our past that were lost suddenly resurface in hard to explain places.
Tucked away antique shops are piled floor-to-ceiling with dusty relics.
Bedos cradled them in his enormous hands as if they were precious relics.
So we placed some of these holy relics upon the sick man, at the same time offering our vows for him, and then he improved.
I believe they expected to receive a large sum from these relics: how grievously they were disappointed I need not tell.
Life has few direr disenchanters than the morning smells of obsolete tobacco, relics though they be of hesternal beatitude.
The strangest materials were used in their construction; the public taste leaning towards relics possessing historical interest.
The old lady could not be persuaded to let these relics leave her keeping, but she willingly made extracts from them.