Dictionary content from CC-CEDICT De keizer is ver weg - boek met wilde avonturen in China


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archaeology
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ancient / old / paleo-
(since) ancient times / (from) time immemorial
to die / to pass away
immemorial
to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times
for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
to learn from the ancients / to study the classic texts
pseudo-classical / modeled on antique / in the old style
Inner Mongolia (abbr. for 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区)
the men of today are sadly degenerated (idiom)
antiquity / ancient times
Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash
Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso
following the ways of old / in imitation of ancient style
to search for ancient relics
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
to recall the past / to cherish the memory of past events / to reminisce / nostalgic
Mongolia
throughout time / from ancient times (up to the present)
Sino-Cuban / China-Cuba
medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand
Honggu District of Lanzhou City 蘭州市|兰州市, Gansu
to emulate a classic / to work in the style of a classic (author)
near ancient history (often taken to mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times)
in former times / in olden days
since the dawn of time / from the year dot
Outer Mongolia
to visit historic sites
to shine through the ages (idiom)
Syracuse, Sicily / also written 錫拉庫薩|锡拉库萨
stick-in-the-mud / to stick to old ways / stubbornly conservative
to revisit the past / to commemorate
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959), British economist
remote antiquity
to observe the present to study the past
Pleiku, Vietnam
a good reputation to last down the generations
ancient times


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