Epoch
['iːpɒk;'epɒk] or ['ɛpək]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages.
(noun.) (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded.
手打:内蒂--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence; as, the epoch of the creation; the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the Christian era.
(n.) A period of time, longer or shorter, remarkable for events of great subsequent influence; a memorable period; as, the epoch of maritime discovery, or of the Reformation.
(n.) A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period.
(n.) The date at which a planet or comet has a longitude or position.
(n.) An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860.
约翰校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Period, date, era, age, point or period of time (remarkable for some event).
哈恩編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a point of time fixed or made remarkable by some great event from which dates are reckoned: a period remarkable for important events: (astron.) the mean heliocentric longitude of a planet in its orbit at any given time.—adjs. Ep′ochal; Ep′och-mā′king.—Make Mark an epoch to begin an important era.
錄入:劳伦斯
例句/造句/用法:
- They are purging more than the epsom salts in this epoch. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The entrance of the Grants and Crawfords was a favourable epoch. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Like drama which compresses the tragedy of a lifetime into a unity of time, place, and action, history foreshortens an epoch into an episode. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The Romans, for example, never had needles comparable to those of the Magdalenian epoch. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Its hope is that some man living at one place on the globe in a particular epoch will, through the miracle of genius, be able to generalize his experience for all time and all space. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Nearly all historians are disposed to regard the career of Alexander the Great as marking an epoch in human affairs. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The next important epoch was the invention of Forneyron in 1823, of the water-wheel known as the Turbine and also as the Vortex Wheel. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The epoch of good clothes for the people, with all that it means in the fight upward from degradation, began in this century, and it was due to the inventions which have been above outlined. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- We will suppose the letters A to L to represent allied genera existing during the Silurian epoch, and descended from some still earlier form. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The above extracts are good illustrations, however, of scientific opinions up to the end of 1879, when Mr. Edison's epoch-making invention rendered them entirely untenable. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In this same epoch apparatus of precision developed in other fields. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- A child's first sight of a reddleman was an epoch in his life. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I am blind with crying--I can write no more---- * * * * * * * * * * [The First Epoch of the Story closes here. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- At that epoch, in that single month of June, many a solid fortune was realized. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- At twenty years of age, a selection must be made of the more promising disciples, with whom a new epoch of education will begin. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- For on the theory, such strata must somewhere have been deposited at these ancient and utterly unknown epochs of the world's history. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- He divided his story into six epochs to square with the six days of the Creation story. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- His own aversion to reform, his fondness for vast epochs and his contempt for current effort have left most of his psychological laws in the region of interesting literary comment. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Coal is largely formed from vast masses of vegetable matter deposited through the luxuriant growth of plants in former epochs of the earth’s history. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Still less do we know of the mutual relations of the innumerable inhabitants of the world during the many past geological epochs in its history. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The splendid epochs will be interpreted as monuments of man's creation, not of his propulsion. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- All epochs are determined by economic arrangements. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
阿尔玛編輯