classic example/mistake/case etc• Ashmore, in Cranborne Chase, is a classic example, and there are many similar villages in the Yorkshire Wolds.• Take the classic case, catatonic schizophrenia-okay?• A classic example is a capacity to store water in their feathers.• A classic example of a directory is the telephone White Pages, which allows us to locate people and telephone numbers.• Graphite is the classic example of a substance with a layerstructure.• A classic example of cognitive processes is that of animal memory and the demonstration of subsequent decisions based thereon.• But such an approach is a classic example of treatingsymptoms of organizational dysfunction, rather than its root causes.
classic cars• Seems they were part of a Model taking place in LakeCounty that drew 102 of the classic cars.• The Sunday Times carried half a page of ads for classic cars.• Since the bottom fell out of the market for supercars and classic cars, hot-rods have taken over.• They were there for a motoringfestival, with more than two hundred million poundsworth of classic cars on show.• He is a devoutCatholic who loves classic cars, stodgypuddings and paintings.
classic2 ●●○AWL noun [countableC]
1IMPORTANTa book, play, or film that is important and has been admired for a long time 名著;经典作品;杰作
‘La Grande Illusion’ is one of the classics of French cinema.
《大幻影》是法国电影中的经典作品之一。
all-time/modern/design etc classic
The play has become an American classic.
该剧成了美国的经典剧作。
2GOOD/EXCELLENTsomething that is very good and one of the best examples of its kind 典范,经典
classic• My bandsaw is a classic made in about 1960 by Robinsons.• Tuesday night's game against the Clippers was a classic.• My marriage was a classic of its time.• Hernan said that he was getting by primarily on Cliff Notes and movie versions of the assignedclassics.• a collection of literaryclassics• The smallest categorycomprises those that have actually become minorclassics.• Movies like "Paris, Texas' have become modernclassics.• It was a match to rank with the Lord's classics of 1953 and 1963.• Saskia also draws from the classics for her language.
all-time/modern/design etc classic• The liquidengineers A modern classic.• A favourite of many and an all-time classic you can't afford to be without.• Puzznic is destined to become an all-time classic in the Tetris/Klax mould, and no serious puzzle-player should be without it.• This really is the prize of a lifetime: nearly £2,000 worth of modern classic.• Both offer unexpected views of Evans, swinging mightily through standards, modern classics and originals.