中英互译
epoch
英 /ˈiːpɒk/美 /ˈepək/
基本释义
- n.时代,纪元;值得纪念的事件(或日期);世(地质年代,纪下分世);历元
复数epochs
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词语例句
时代,纪元cn.
六级The birth of Christ was the beginning of a major epoch of world history.
基督的诞生是世界历史一个重要时代的开始。
An examination of the history of humanity suggested that man in our epoch is so different from man in previous times that it seemed unrealistic to assume that men in every age have had in common something that can be called "human nature".
对人类历史的考察表明,我们这个时代的人与以往的人是如此不同,以至于认为每个时代的人都有可被称为“人性”的共同之处,这似乎是不现实的。
- It was meant to sound like an epoch-making declaration.有意让它听起来像是一个划时代的宣言。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- The birth of Christ was the beginning of a major epoch of world history.基督的诞生是世界历史一个重要时代的开始。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- The Pleistocene Epoch was an ice age.更新世是一段冰河时代。
相关短语
- pleistocene epoch更新世
- holocene epoch全新世
- miocene epoch[地质]中新世
- glacial epoch[地]冰川期;冰河时期
- Planck epoch普朗克纪元
- epoch-making划时代;划时代意义
- epoch angle初相角
- glacial epoch冰期;冰川期;冰川时期;冰川世
- Pacific Epoch弘亚世纪;弘亚时代;弘亚世代咨询公司
词语扩展
词义分布
时代
79.8%
时期
13.2%
新纪元
2.6%
历元
1.5%
世
1.5%
新时代
0.7%
纪
0.7%
英英释义
- n.a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- n.(astronomy) the precise date that is the point of reference for which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is referred
- n.a unit of geological time
词源
- epoch时代,纪元来自希腊文epekhein, 停止,重新开始。来自epi-, 在上,-ekh, 持,握,词源同scheme, school. 引申文新的时代,纪元。参照汉语的改朝换代。
- epochFrom Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ, “a check, cessation, stop, pause, epoch of a star, i.e., the point at which it seems to halt after reaching the highest, and generally the place of a star; hence, a historical epoch”), from ἐπέχω (epékhō, “I hold in, check”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “I have, hold”).