[N-COUNT 可数名词]时代;纪元 If you refer to a long period of time as an epoch, you mean that important events or great changes took place during it.
[usu with supp]
The birth of Christ was the beginning of a major epoch of world history.
基督诞生是世界历史上一个重要纪元的开端。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](地质中的)世,纪,期 An epoch is a very long period of time in the earth's development, marked by particular physical or biological characteristics.
[usu supp N]
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Two main glacial epochs affected both areas during the last 100 million years of Precambrian times.
在前寒武纪的最后1亿年中,两个主要的冰川时期对两个地区都产生了影响。
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epoch/ˈiːpɒk; NAmEˈepək/noun( formalorliterary) 1a period of time in history, especially one during which important events or changes happen 时代;纪元;时期SYN
era
◆The death of the emperor marked the end of an epoch in the country's history.皇帝驾崩标志着该国历史上一个时代的结束。2( geology 地) a length of time which is a division of a period世(地质年代,纪下分世)◆geological epochs地质世epochepochsepoch/ˈiːpɒk; NAmEˈepək/
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epoche‧poch /ˈiːpɒk $ ˈepək/ noun [countable]
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a period of historySYN era: the Victorian epoch The king’s death marked the end of an epoch.the beginning of a new epoch► see thesaurus at
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