The English public schools are an anachronism.英国的公学已经过时

This is a fundamental, sensible reform of one of the great political anachronisms of the modern world.这是对现代世界政治上落伍的一个大国进行的一场根本而又明智的改革。

The last paragraph contains an anachronism. The Holy Office no longer existed at that time.最后一段中存在一个时代错误。宗教法庭那时已经不存在了。