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Перевод: antediluvian

[прилагательное]
допотопный; архаичный;
[существительное]
глубокий старик; древний старец; старомодный человек

Тезаурус:

1. Quite correctly Murphy calls for changes in the antediluvian playing customs and policies of the Irish clubs.
2. This wild and wayward child of the Prophets - "a Daniel come to Judgment" - needed the thick padded hide of the antediluvian monster, whose maw he had so precipitately fled from.
3. Dr Kennedy is an unreconstructed Thatcherite, and the Northern Ireland Tories delude themselves in believing that "British" politics is "normal" and "non-sectarian", rather than (in a European context) antediluvian and (in a Northern Ireland context) unionist.
4. Unfortunately for the antediluvian bowl-heads, a right-thinking retailer phoned the RSPCA on the grounds that it was cruel to goldfish and so the whole idea had to be binned.
5. Regrettably, this illogical and antediluvian attitude still persists even when we are dealing with nations substantially richer than ourselves.
6. Why not antediluvian Germans in a pantry?"
7. Ever since then - and especially since the US politician and writer Ignatius Donnelly published his Atlantis, the Antediluvian World in 1882 - the legend of Atlantis has captured the public imagination.
8. The basement behind formed the firs fire station with its antediluvian engine, and opposite was the police station.
9. On its paperback publication in 1985, The Wild Girl provoked dire fulminations not only from the expected pressure groups, but also from a would-be Torquemada in Parliament; and, until rather more sane judgements prevailed, the book was threatened with prosecution under Britain's antediluvian blasphemy law.
10. It's all good-humoured teasing and winding up, and for my part I've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on "rock climbing as it is done these days."
11. One of the joys of late Thatcherism was the spluttering indignation that greeted Lord Mackay's proposal to modify the Bar's closed shop and end other antediluvian work practices.
12. But at times this urgency verged on desperation as we were told by Tookey that the film " utterly fails to convince"; by Frank Johnson that "its politics are so plainly antediluvian "; by Pearce that "you couldn't take a single thing seriously".
13. Ideally joined by a bar (less fiddly than a chain), they should feature masonic crests, "the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes" perhaps being best, in accordance with the rule that the more eccentric these groups sound, the duller they are.