lay，mundane，profane，secular，temporal ；

[例句] 他喜爱世俗的享乐. He is fond of worldly enjoyments.

[例句] 戴利主教已经说过，教堂不应该用于非宗教或世俗的目的。 Cardinal Daly has said that churches should not be used for profane or secular purposes.

aristocratic family，old and well-known family，a family holding high official positions for generations ；

[例句] 她出身于音乐世家. She was from a musical family.

[例句] 他出身 世家. He comes of ( a ) good stock .

[地] the Eocene epoch ；

[例句] 一直到始新世,生物多样性都在不断地提高. These showed an evolution of increasing diversity through to the Eocene.

[例句] 其次是区内始新世末期抬升运动,致使始新统及以下老地层受剥蚀,仅始新统最大剥蚀量达1000m, 这是盆地内绝无仅有的. Second, it was eroded over 1000 meters during elevating move — ment later Eocene.

knowing ；

[例句] 她那强硬而世故的外表下掩藏着一颗温柔而敏感的心。 Her rather tough and worldly exterior hides a very soft and sensitive heart.

[例句] 鲍勃是个通晓世故的人, 干吗不去听听他的意见 呢 ? Bob is a man of the world; why not go to him for advice?

名 [地名] [荷兰、加拿大、美国] Zurich ；

[例句] 该联盟已致函苏黎世，要求将情况解释清楚。 The union has written to Zurich asking for clarification of the situation.

[例句] 在20世纪80年代，吸毒者在苏黎世是被众人所唾弃的。 Back in the 1980s drug users were a public nuisance in Zurich.

worldly ；

[例句] 许多人不关心世间的困难,只是袖手旁观. Many people just sit back and do not get concerned about the world's difficulties.

[例句] 坐在他的摇椅里,观看这个世界, 世间的苦难来得并不很快. Viewing the world from his rocking - chair, its bitterness did not seem to approach so rapidly.

worldly ；

[例句] 她抛弃世上的财物而献身教会. She forsook her worldly possessions to devote herself to the church.

[例句] 我们有朝一日能消除世上的贫困 吗 ? Can we ever eliminate poverty from the world?

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[例句] 这座14世纪的大教堂变成了一堆瓦砾。 The fourteenth century cathedral was reduced to a mass of rubble.

[例句] 数字音频广播是21世纪的无线电广播系统。 DAB is the radio system of the 21st Century.

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[例句] 完美的工具和混淆的目标,似乎是我们这一世代的特点. Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age.

[例句] 那个方向也许是可以流行于新世代的潮流. This direction will probably be the trend even in the next - gen console.

Holocene，Recent，Recent epoch ；

drop out ；

bonism ；

after the flesh，carnally ；

feudal ；

hereditarily ；

descendent，hereditary，lineal，patrimonial ；

lineage ；

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