epoch是什么意思？

epoch

英[ˈi:pɒk] 美[ˈepək]

• n. 纪元，时期，新时代，世；

复数：epochs;

例句

• We're at the end of the historical epoch, and at the dawn of another. 我们正处在一个历史时代的末期, 另一个历史时代的开端。
• Above all, the warfare of Hester's spirit at that epoch was perpetuated in Pearl. 而最主要的是, 当时海丝特的好斗精神也永远注入了珠儿的身心.
• Metallogenetic epoch was late Yanshanian and fluid derived from meteoric water. 成矿流体来源主要为大气降水.
• I told him his idea was not exactly epoch - making. 我告诉他说他的思想算不上是划时代的.
• Aloscience, logic and mathematics included, is a function of the epoch. 所有科学, 包括逻辑学和数学在内, 都是有关时代的函数.
• How monogamy fares during this epoch, therefore, only occupies him very briefly. 所以, 他只是非常简单地论述了一下一夫一妻制在这一时期的命运.
• ...the epoch-making changes now taking place in Eastern Europe. 当下正在东欧发生的划时代的变革
• 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。
• 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。

同义词

• n.
  epoch的同义词之：时代
  age, era, period,
• epoch的同义词之：其他释义
  day, age, era, period, time,

同义词解析

• 以下这些名词均包含 "时期，时代" 的意思
  age ：常指具有显著特征或以某杰出人物命名的历史时代或时期。
  epoch ：正式用词，侧重指以某重大事件或巨大变化为起点的新的历史时期。
  era ：书面语用词，指历史上的纪元、年代，可与epoch和age互换，侧重时期的延续性和整个历程。
  period ：最普通用词，概念广泛，时间长短不限，既可指任何一个历史时期，又可指个人或自然界的一个发展阶段。
  times ：侧重某一特定时期。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  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.
  例句
  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。
• N-COUNT
  （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.
  例句
  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。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  纪元, 时期, 时代
  We're at the end of the historical epoch, and at the dawn of another. 我们正处在一个历史时代的末期, 另一个历史时代的开端。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
  2. (astronomy) the precise date that is the point of reference for which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is referred
  3. a unit of geological time

行业词典

• 地质学： 世；
  天文学： 历元；作为时间参考标准的一个特定瞬时。；