Jurassic

英语

词源

借自法语 Jurassique，名取自瑞士的侏罗山。

发音

• 英语发音：jʊ-răs'ĭk
• 韵部：-æsɪk

形容词

Jurassic (无比较级)

1. (地质学) 侏罗纪的
   • 1990, Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, Alfred A. Knopf, p94:

     His father squinted at the skeleton. “What is it, Jurassic?” “Jeez. No. Cretaceous.” “Cretaceous? What's the difference between Cretaceous and Jurassic?” “Only about a hundred million years,” Tim said. “Cretaceous is older?” “No, Dad, Jurassic is older.”

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2. 侏罗山的，侏罗山附近的
   • 1910, Peter Kropotkin, “Anarchism”, in Encyclopædia Britannica.

     The Jurassic, the Spanish and the Italian federations and sections of the International Working Men's Association, as also the French, the German and the American anarchist groups, were for the next years the chief centres of anarchist thought and propaganda.

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3. (非正式) 老土的，过时的
   • 2009 March, Byron Rempel, “Women's Ski Jumping Takes Aim at the Winter Olympics”, 出自 Skiing Heritage Journal, 第 21 卷, 第 1 号，第 17= 页:

     Those fears and excuses seem positively Jurassic more than eighty years later.

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   • 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner，第 93 页:

     For every three shops or restaurants that looked as if they might have had a poster of Che Guevara somewhere on the premises, there was one stubborn Jurassic retailer offering knit suits for older women or an Italian restaurant that offered all-you-can-eat garlic bread and didn't call itself a trattoria.

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   • 2017, Giuliana Prada, Hiding Boys in Bathrooms: A Decade of Dating Debacles:

     Well, thirty compared to twenty-five seemed Jurassic to me back then.

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专有名词

Jurassic

1. (地质学，古生物学) 侏罗纪
   • D. M. Kermack, K. A. Kermack, The Evolution of Mammalian Characters:

     [p 108] Like the Forest Marble Beds in the Middle Jurassic, the Purbeck Beds of the Upper Jurassic are deltaic or estuarine in origin, so as well as mammals they contain small, presumably freshwater, crocodiles and the first indisputable lizards.

     [p 109] This is less surprising if it is recalled that in the Upper Jurassic, Europe and North America were joined to form Laurasia and the Atlantic Ocean still had to be formed [...]

上义词

• (地质年代)： Phanerozoic；Mesozoic

下义词

• (地质年代)： Lower Jurassic、Middle Jurassic、Upper Jurassic - epochs; series

同类词汇

• (地质年代)： Triassic（往前），Cretaceous（往后） - periods; systems