epoch
/'i:pɒk/
📖 中文释义
- n. 新纪元, 时代, 时期
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
复数 epochs
💬 双语例句
The Year That Ended an Epoch?
标志着时代终结的一年?
Trump’s inauguration marks a new epoch in world history – a new geopolitical “century.” Nobody can yet say if it will be a time of conflict or harmony, advancement or retrenchment.
Humans are changing the natural environment so dramatically, and to our own detriment, that scientists believe we have entered a new geologic epoch – the “Anthropocene” – which began around 1950 and is characterized by unprecedented planetary pollution.
人类正在造成自然环境的急剧恶化,乃至科学家们认为我们已经进入了“人类世”这一新的地质时期。 人类世始于1950年左右,以前所未有的行星污染为标志。
🔵 同义词
🔗 常用搭配
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
- n. a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages