| 英语单词 | epoch |
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| 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]
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]
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