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Megalithic is the adjective for the huge standing stones that ancient people set in place, and for the age and the people who made them. It describes three sorts of thing. A structure: a megalithic tomb, a megalithic circle — one built from those great stones. A period or culture: the megalithic era, megalithic Britain — the long stretch of prehistory when communities across Europe and beyond were raising them. And, loosely, anything that feels enormous and heavy and ancient — 'a megalithic concrete tower' — though that last use is a writer's flourish, not the technical sense. It lives in books, museum labels, and documentaries; you would rarely say it in conversation. A small pleasure of this word: it is older than the noun . Dictionaries record the adjective first, and was cut down from it afterwards — the reverse of what you would expect.
巨石的、巨石文化的(形容用巨石建造的墳墓、遺跡,或那個史前時期)
組成mega- ('very large, great') + -lith ('stone', from Greek lithos) + -ic (the ending that turns a noun into an adjective, 'having to do with'). Probably formed on the pattern of the older word monolithic.
同家族的字
- monolithicsame -lith 'stone' + -ic, with mono- 'one'
- megaliththe noun — and in fact the younger of the two words
- lithographysame lithos 'stone'
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
megalithicadj/ˌmɛɡəˈlɪθɪk/
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Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。