prehistory

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times. countable,uncountable
    — “We don’t find evidence for that sort of thing anywhere in prehistory.”
  2. The study of those times. countable,uncountable
  3. Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era. countable,excessive,humorous,uncountable
    — I was a town boy through and through. The country belonged to a vague pre-history.
  4. The history leading up to some event, condition, etc. countable,often,uncountable
    — Psychologists... are mostly bad historians, inventing—as Freud has done—their pre-history to suit their theories.

词形变化

prehistories plural pre-history alternative

词汇关系

反义词
posthistory
相关词
prehistorian prehistoric

词源

From pre- (“before”) + history, first attested in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836, after the model of prehistoric, from French préhistorique.
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