| 单词 | time warp |
| 释义 | time warpWord family adjectivetimedtimelesstimelytimeoustime-consumingtime-honouredtime-lapsetime-wornadverbtimelesslytimeouslynountimelessnesstimelinesstimertimingtimisttime bombtime capsuletimecardtime clocktimeframetimekeepertimekeepingtime lagtime limittimelinetime machinetime outtimepiecetime-savingtimescaletimeservertimesharetime-sharingtime sheettime signaltime signaturetimestamptime switchtimetabletime warptime zonetime Chronology ˈtime warp noun [countableC] 1 be (caught/locked/stuck) in a time warp PERIOD OF TIMEto have not changed even though everyone or everything else has 停留在过去 The house seemed to be stuck in a 19th-century time warp. 这栋房子似乎还停留在19世纪。 2. TMCPERIOD OF TIMEan imaginary situation in which the past or future becomes the present 〔幻想中的〕时间错位 Examples from the Corpus time warp• Hanoi itself appeared to be caught in a time warp.• I was stuck in a time warp in every sense, one that encompassed my part of Cliff Top as well.• The union movement in this country suffers from fossilized leadership trapped in a time warp.• Here is a time warp if ever there was one.• Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s?• On a rocky unmade track through the olive groves, we might have strayed through a time warp into a Biblical landscape.• For him there was a time warp in which things from different eras overlapped.• Step inside, however, and you enter a technological time warp. |
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