epoch
英 ['iːpɒk; 'epɒk]
美['ɛpək]
- n. [地质] 世；新纪元；新时代；时间上的一点
词态变化
复数: epochs;
助记提示
1. Greek ekhein "have, hold, keep, possess, continue" => ech-, och-, uch- , hect- => synechia, epoch, eunuch, hectic, hector.
2. 一破壳 小鸡一破壳迎来新时代。
3. Epoch: 艾保克手表.
2. 一破壳 小鸡一破壳迎来新时代。
3. Epoch: 艾保克手表.
中文词源
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。
英英释意
- 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
英文词源
- epoch
- epoch: [17] Historically, epoch means ‘point in time’, but its particular application to ‘point marking the beginning of a new period of time’ has led increasingly to its use in modern English for simply ‘historical period’. The word comes via modern Latin epocha from Greek epokhé, literally ‘pause, stoppage’, and hence ‘fixed point in time’. This was a derivative of epékhein ‘pause, hold back’, a compound verb formed from the prefix epí- ‘back’ and ékhein ‘hold’ (source of English hectic and related to scheme and sketch).
=> hectic, scheme, sketch - epoch (n.)
- 1610s, epocha, "point marking the start of a new period in time" (such as the founding of Rome, the birth of Christ, the Hegira), from Medieval Latin epocha, from Greek epokhe "stoppage, fixed point of time," from epekhein "to pause, take up a position," from epi "on" (see epi-) + ekhein "to hold" (see scheme (n.)). Transferred sense of "a period of time" is 1620s; geological usage (not a precise measurement) is from 1802.
同义词辨析
age, epoch, era, period, times
这些名词均含"时期，时代"之意。
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。
考试真题
- As such, it needed to appreciate the economic realities, the social contexts and power relations in which each epoch stood.
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实用场景例句
- The death of the emperor marked the end of an epoch in the country's history.
- 皇帝驾崩标志着该国历史上一个时代的结束。
牛津词典
- geological epochs
- 地质世
牛津词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Thus had opened the gas water heater the epoch which develops in China.
- 从而揭开了燃气热水器在中国发展的新纪元.
期刊摘选
- The invention of the atomic bomb begins a new epoch in history.
- 原子弹的发明在历史上开始了一个新的历史时期.
期刊摘选
- Or maybe you'll be an anthropologist who discovers exciting new fossils Pleistocene Epoch.
- 或者也许你会发现更新时代一块令人激动的新化石,成为一名人类学家.
期刊摘选
- Anshi's Rebellion is the indication of the new epoch to the poetry.
- 安史之乱对于诗歌来说,标志着一个新时代的开始.
期刊摘选
- Duhuangling gold deposit occurred within the quartz diorite of Late Yanshan Epoch.
- 杜荒岭金矿床赋存于燕山晚期的石英闪长(斑)岩中.
期刊摘选
- The first flight into space marked a new epoch in the history of mankind.
- 第一次太空飞行标志著人类历史中的新的历史时期.
期刊摘选
- The Renaissance was an epoch of unparalleled cultural achievement.
- 文艺复兴是一个文化上取得空前成就的时代.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 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.
《简明英汉词典》
- The invention of the computer makes an epoch.
- 计算机的发明是划时代的.
期刊摘选
- 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.
辞典例句
- His leadership illuminated the epoch.
- 他的领导给这个时代增添了光彩.
期刊摘选
- The epoch of revolution creates great figures.
- 革命时代造就伟大的人物.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Metallogenetic epoch was late Yanshanian and fluid derived from meteoric water.
- 成矿流体来源主要为大气降水.
期刊摘选
- Theand Jin Dynasties were a turbulent epoch, the ideology changed radically and the culture transformed.
- 魏晋时代是一个动荡的时代, 又是一个思想意识形态发生剧烈变化、时代转型的时代.
期刊摘选
- It would mark a new era; it would make an epoch.
- 这将标志一个新的纪元, 这将创造一个新的时代.
辞典例句
- This is more than a limitation of Chopin's thought; it is a limitation of the epoch.
- 这不仅是肖邦个人思想的局限, 也是特定社会背景下历史的局限.
期刊摘选
- 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.
英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
- Acid intrusions of Late Caledonian or Early Variscian Epoch result from island arc magmatism.
- 加里东晚期或华力西早期侵位的酸性侵入岩为岛弧环境产物.
期刊摘选
- Sandaowanzi gold deposit is located in the southeast of Daxinganling metallogenic belt during Yanshanian epoch.
- 三道湾子金矿位于大兴安岭燕山期成矿带东南部,为典型的石英脉型金矿.
期刊摘选
- Designer idea: This collection represents my understanding of fashion in new epoch.
- 设计构思: 灵感来源于对新时代着装文化的一种态度.
期刊摘选
- The scorched couch is put in the porch of epoch.
- 被烤焦睡椅放在时代门廊内.
期刊摘选
- The death of the emperor marked the end of an epoch in the country's history.
- 皇帝驾崩标志着该国历史上一个时代的结束。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》