of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve
例句
All that now seems to belong to a distant, prelapsarian, naive age. 现在看来，这些终究只是那个遥远、纯洁而又天真的年代才有的。
He has tried to re-create a kind of prelapsarian downtown where there is no crime or homelessness. 他试图重建一种天真无邪的市区，那里没有犯罪、没有无家可归者。
China last year gave the lie to several myths of the prelapsarian era. De-coupling is bunkum and even turbo-charged engines can lose steam. 过去一年，中国证明伊甸园时期的数个神话都是不实的。所谓与世界经济“脱钩”论已是无稽之谈，甚至连高速增长的引擎也可能会失去动力。
