anachronism
/əˈnækrənɪzəm/noun
1- a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned过时事物：
their shop persisted almost as an anachronism into the 1980s.
他们的商店一直开到20世纪80年代, 几乎成了时代的落伍者。
1.1
- mass noun the action of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period to which it does not belong时代误植：
it is anachronism to suppose that the official morality of the age was mere window dressing.
认为这一时代所认可的道德观念纯粹是装点门面是过时的。
派生词
anachronistic
adjectiveanachronistically
adverb词源
mid 17th cent.: from Greek anakhronismos, from ana- 'backwards' + khronos 'time'.