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Epoch Period Marked Time Age Glacial Revolution Einstein's

英语单词 epoch
英美音标 英 ['iːpɒk] 美 ['epək]
中文释义 n. 时期; 时代; 新纪元; 划时代的大事; <地质>世
英语例句 (1) Ice age refers to the latest glacial epoch.
(2) The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch.
(3) Einstein's theory marked a new epoch in history.
(4) The epoch of revolution creates great figures.
(5) Einstein's theory marked a new epoch in physics.
(6) The invention of the computer makes an epoch.
中文例句 (1) 冰河时期指的是最近的一个冰川时期。
(2) 革命时期有过许多那样的人,都和那时代相称。
(3) 爱因斯坦的理论标志著历史上一个新时代的开始。
(4) 革命时代造就伟大的人物。
(5) 爱因斯坦理论开创了物理学的新纪元。
(6) 计算机的发明是划时代的大事。
vocabulary简明 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.
vocabulary扩展 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.
柯林斯解释
1
[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。

2
[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]
  [TECHNICAL 术语]
  • 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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