英语词汇anachronism的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

In the War of the Roses. This famous clerihew by Nicholas Bentley, the son of the inventor of the clerihew, comments on filmmakers who don’t often get ill about the anachronisms in their epics. If Moses was put in the War of the Roses, or if Cleopatra’s barge was depicted as powered by an outboard motor, these would be anachronisms. The word derives from the Greek ana chronos, “out of time,” to be late, or “back-timing,” and means an error in chronology, putting a person, event, or thing in the wrong time period. Some classic examples are Shakespeare’s reference to billiards in Antony and Cleopatra, to cannon in King John, and to turkeys in Henry IV, Part I. Famous American anachronisms include George Wash- ington throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac (there were no silver dollars at the time) and the flying of the Stars and Stripes in paintings of major Revolutionary War battles (the flag wasn’t used until 1783). Sometimes anachronism is used to describe an institution or a person who lives in the past.

词汇	anachronism
词源	anachronism. Cecil B. DeMille Was feeling ill Because he couldn’t put Moses In the War of the Roses. This famous clerihew by Nicholas Bentley, the son of the inventor of the clerihew, comments on filmmakers who don’t often get ill about the anachronisms in their epics. If Moses was put in the War of the Roses, or if Cleopatra’s barge was depicted as powered by an outboard motor, these would be anachronisms. The word derives from the Greek ana chronos, “out of time,” to be late, or “back-timing,” and means an error in chronology, putting a person, event, or thing in the wrong time period. Some classic examples are Shakespeare’s reference to billiards in Antony and Cleopatra, to cannon in King John, and to turkeys in Henry IV, Part I. Famous American anachronisms include George Wash- ington throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac (there were no silver dollars at the time) and the flying of the Stars and Stripes in paintings of major Revolutionary War battles (the flag wasn’t used until 1783). Sometimes anachronism is used to describe an institution or a person who lives in the past.
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