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antediluvian .æntidi'lu:viәn

GRE

释义

a. 大洪水前的, 陈旧的, 过时的
n. 大洪水以前的人, 老迈的人

英文释义

n. any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
a. of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
s. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

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