time warp
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˈtime warp noun [countable] 1 be (caught/locked/stuck) in a time warp PERIOD OF TIMEto have not changed even though everyone or everything else has 停留在过去 The house seemed to be stuck in a 19th-century time warp. 这栋房子似乎还停留在19世纪。2. TMCPERIOD OF TIMEan imaginary situation in which the past or future becomes the present 〔幻想中的〕时间错位
Examples from the Corpus
time warp• Hanoi itself appeared to be caught in a time warp.• I was stuck in a time warp in every sense, one that encompassed my part of Cliff Top as well.• The union movement in this country suffers from fossilized leadership trapped in a time warp.• Here is a time warp if ever there was one.• Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s?• On a rocky unmade track through the olive groves, we might have strayed through a time warp into a Biblical landscape.• For him there was a time warp in which things from different eras overlapped.• Step inside, however, and you enter a technological time warp.ˈtime warp nounChineseSyllable
have to even Corpus though or not everything changed everyone
time warp
ˈtime warp
noun [countable]
1. be (caught/locked/stuck) in a time warp to have not changed even though everyone or everything else has:
The house seemed to be stuck in a 19th-century time warp.
2. an imaginary situation in which the past or future becomes the present
ˈtime warp
noun [countable]1. be (caught/locked/stuck) in a time warp to have not changed even though everyone or everything else has:
2. an imaginary situation in which the past or future becomes the present
