His fall from grace in the 1980s, followed by his return to Apple in 1996 after a period in the wilderness, is an inspiration to any businessperson whose career has taken a turn for the worse.
出自-2012年12月阅读原文
The past 15 years or so have been a noticeable period of improvement for food in England," the English chef says, citing the trend in British cuisine for better ingredients, preparation and cooking methods, and more appealing presentation.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
Ebola was so deadly and killed so quickly that within a short period of time, there was no one around to infect.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
This means that there could be an extra three billion mouths to feed by the end of the century, a period in which substantial changes are anticipated in the wealth, calorie intake and dietary preferences of people in developing countries across the world.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
Nobody ever had a better time or did more exotic strange things than I did in an 80-year period.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
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一段时间；时期
A period is a length of time.
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This crisis might last for a long period of time.
这次危机可能持续很长时间。
...a period of a few months.
几个月时间
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（个人、组织或社会的）阶段，时期，时代
A period in the life of a person, organization, or society is a length of time which is remembered for a particular situation or activity.
例句
...a period of economic good health and expansion...
经济健康发展并且不断扩张的一段时期
He went through a period of wanting to be accepted...
有一段时间他很想被人接受。
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（历史上的）阶段，时期
A particular length of time in history is sometimes called a period. For example, you can talk about the Victorian period or the Elizabethan period in Britain.
例句
...the Roman period...
罗马帝国时代
No reference to their existence appears in any literature of the period.
这一时期的文学作品中都没有提及他们的存在。
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（服装、家具、乐器）过去的，古代的，具有某个时代特征的
Period costumes, furniture, and instruments were made at an earlier time in history, or look as if they were made then.
例句
...dressed in full period costume.
穿着宽松的古装
...replicas of period instruments.
古乐器的复制品
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（练习、训练、学习的）时间，时段
Exercise, training, or study periods are lengths of time that are set aside for exercise, training, or study.
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They accompanied him during his exercise periods.
练习的时候他们陪着他。
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课；课时；节
At a school or college, a period is one of the parts that the day is divided into during which lessons or other activities take place.
例句
...periods of private study.
自习课
...taking his scripts to school in order to learn the lines in free periods.
把他的剧本带到学校以便空闲的时候背台词
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月经
When a woman has a period, she bleeds from her womb. This usually happens once a month, unless she is pregnant.
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到此为止；不再说了
Some people say period after stating a fact or opinion when they want to emphasize that they are definite about something and do not want to discuss it further.
例句
I don't want to do it, period.
我不想做，这事就到此为止吧。
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句号
A period is the punctuation mark (.) which you use at the end of a sentence when it is not a question or an exclamation.