time capsule

English

Noun

time capsule (plural time capsules)

1. A sealed container, buried at some location, that contains records of contemporary life - to be rediscovered in the distant future.
2. (figuratively) Something reflecting an historical setting by its nature, existing out of time due to isolation or some specific external influence.
   • 2011, Francis Tapon, The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us, page 135:

     As we've seen, Belarus is a Soviet time capsule that continues only because Russia is keeping it on life support.

Translations

sealed container

• Arabic: كپسول زمان
• Azerbaijani: zaman kapsulu
• Bulgarian: капсула на времето (kapsula na vremeto)
• Catalan: càpsula del temps f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 時間囊／时间囊, 时间囊 (si⁴ gaan³ nong⁴, si⁴ gaan¹ nong⁴)

  Mandarin: 時間囊／时间囊 (shíjiānnáng), 时间囊 (shíjiānnáng), 時間膠囊／时间胶囊 (shíjiān jiāonáng), 时间胶囊 (shíjiān jiāonáng)

• Czech: časová schránka, časová kapsle
• Danish: tidskapsel
• Dutch: tijdcapsule
• Esperanto: tempa kapsulo
• Estonian: ajakapsel
• Finnish: aikakapseli
• French: capsule temporelle f
• German: Zeitkapsel (de) f
• Hebrew: קפסולת זמן
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• Hungarian: időkapszula
• Indonesian: kapsul waktu
• Italian: capsula del tempo f
• Japanese: タイムカプセル (ja) (taimukapuseru)
• Korean: 타임캡슐 (taimkaepsyul)
• Malay: kapsul masa
• Norwegian: tidskapsel
• Persian: کپسول زمان
• Polish: kapsuła czasu f
• Portuguese: cápsula do tempo f
• Russian: ка́псула вре́мени f (kápsula vrémeni)
• Spanish: cápsula del tiempo f, caja del tiempo f
• Swedish: tidskapsel
• Thai: แคปซูลกาลเวลา
• Ukrainian: часова капсула f (časova kapsula)

something reflecting an historical setting

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: aikakapseli
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