Era
['ɪərə] or ['ɪrə]
解释:
(noun.) a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods.
(noun.) a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
编辑:塞格雷--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.
(n.) A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian).
(n.) A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.
校对:佩里
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Series or succession of years (marked by any administration or dispensation).[2]. Epoch, period, date, age, point or period of time (from which dates are reckoned).
艾玛手打
解释:
n. a series of years reckoned from a particular point or that point itself: an important date.
校对:惠特尼
例句:
- Cultures of chicken chol era virus kept for some time became less active. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The invention of the phonograph by Edison in 1878 marked a new era in the popularity and dissemination of music. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Each lasted perhaps for four or five more thousand years, more than double the time from the Christian Era to our own day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The dates belong away back in the dawn of the Christian era, of course. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- These hunters lived on open steppes for two hundred centuries or so, ten times the length of the Christian era. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Printing from letters engraved on blocks of wood is an ancient art, having had its origin in China many centuries before the Christian era. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- I am thinking of a great fellow, who was about as old as I am three hundred years ago, and had already begun a new era in anatomy. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Out of the knowledge of disease germs has grown the great era of antiseptic surgery, inaugurated by Sir Joseph Lister, about 1865. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Much of the history of the Christians in the first two centuries of the Christian era is very obscure. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was Pliny who wrote, at the beginning of the Christian era, that All the usages of civilised life depend in a remarkable degree upon the employment of paper. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The adventures of the Yellow Diamond begin with the eleventh century of the Christian era. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Strange, is it not, that a race still using cross-bows in its army should have known of explosives long before the Christian Era, and perhaps as far back as the time of Moses? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- But with the Nineteenth Century a new era has dawned. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The foregoing might be considered a short synopsis of the pork-packing industry up to the point which we will call the Modern Era. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- They mark a vast era, during which life was slowly spreading, increasing, and developing in the seas of our world. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- During the early Christian and medieval eras spoons were in common use. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
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