lost world

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unknown world out of time, place, or both, the topic of a subgenre of fantasy or science fiction. attributive,often
    — Developed by such popular writers as Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Abraham Merrit, the lost world novel presents small, encapsulated worlds, inhabited by the living fossils of some prehistoric culture, often with dinosaurs or other extinct beasts thrown in for good measure.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lost, world.
    — What I’m describing, of course, is a lost world, glimpsed only through history books or the memories of old people.

词形变化

lost worlds plural
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