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Epoch Period Peaceful History Marked Fixed Event Division

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Pron ['epək]
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n.纪元;时代
There were few peaceful epochs in the history of our country.
我国的历史中,很少有和平的时期。
Vocab
epocha period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

An epoch is a period of time marked by certain characteristics: you might describe several peaceful decades in a nation's history as an epoch of peace.

In geologic time, an epoch is a division of a period, and an age is a division of an epoch. An epoch can also mean the beginning of a new and important period of history, or an event that marks such a period: an epoch in the world of ballet. The noun epoch is from New Latin epocha, from Greek epochē "pause, check, fixed time.

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