- 1瑪土撒拉（聖經裡極長壽的人）；口語用來形容「非常老」
Methuselah is the name of a man in the Bible who, the story says, lived 969 years — longer than anyone else in that book. Because of that, English uses Methuselah to mean “very old,” usually with a smile or a bit of drama. The common phrase is as old as Methuselah, said of a person, an animal, or even a thing that has been around forever. People also call a very old person a Methuselah. It is not a scientific word and not, in kind use, a nasty insult; it is a colourful comparison. You need a little Bible or cultural knowledge to feel why the name means “ancient,” but many speakers still recognise the phrase even if they could not tell you the story.
組成From Biblical Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁלַח (Məṯûšelaḥ), also spelled מְתוּשָׁלַח (Məṯûšālaḥ). English borrowed the name, then stretched it to mean “extremely old.”
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Methuselahname
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The oldest person whose age is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, having reportedly lived 969 years.
- And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
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astronomynatural-sciencesA planet in the PSR B1620-26 star system, Messier 4 globular cluster, Milky Way Galaxy, Scorpius constellation; a circumbinary planet, officially named PSR B1620-26 b, orbiting a pulsar (“PSR B1620-26 A”) and white dwarf (“WD B1620-26 B”).
Methuselahnoun
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Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age.
methuselahnoun
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A large wine bottle with the capacity of about 6 liters, equivalent to 8 standard bottles.
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cellular-automatacomputingengineeringA small pattern that takes many generations to stabilize.
- The first known methuselah was the r pentomino, but even longer lasting ones have been found by enumerating and testing small patterns. The following, called "rabbits," takes over 10000 generations to stabilize.
- Is there somewhere a list of n-cell methuselah patterns in Conway's Life? (assuming some reasonable limits on the bounding box)
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