Photo 414: Ancient style telephone.

图414：电话机，不知是否可用。

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He considers it ludicrous to write about a contemporary topic in an ancient style.

他认为用旧文体来写一个当代的主题是滑稽可笑的。

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The beautiful shape and ancient style jointly generate the lucky and auspicious festive air.

优美的造型、古色古香的韵味营造出祥和、吉利的气氛。

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All this, too, is in the style of ancient carols, which translated the Christian mysteries to local places and contemporary dress.

ECONOMIST: Charles Causley

For more than 30 years chalk in one hand, wineglass in the other he has conducted a Latin summer school in Rome, holding many classes sub arboribus 11 in the conversational style of the ancient world.

ECONOMIST: So you thought that irksome language was dead?

Part of the way in which the epic legitimizes its ability to talk about so many levels of existence and so many kinds of experience is its style: an ancient authority inheres in that old-time diction, the plushly padded epithets and stately rhythms.

NEWYORKER: Battle Lines