very old or old-fashioned 古老的;老式的,陈旧的,过时的 prisons are run on archaic methods. 监狱以过时的方法管理。 ■(of a word or a style of language) no longer in everyday use but sometimes used to import an old-fashioned flavour (词,语言风格)古体的,不再通用的 ■of an early period of art or culture, especially the 7th – 6th centuries bc in Greece 古代艺术(或文化)的(尤指公元前7世纪至前6世纪的古希腊文化) the archaic temple at Corinth. 科林斯的古庙。
派生 archaically adverb 语源
mid 19th cent.: from French archaïque, from Greek arkhaikos, from arkhaios, from arkhē 'beginning'