think that things have become very gloomy these days, lots of misunderstanding, misleading cues, a lot of what the ancients would have called sophistry.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
ADJ-GRADED
远古的;古代的
Ancient means belonging to the distant past, especially to the period in history before the end of the Roman Empire.