Pleistocene
['plaistəusi:n]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution.
校對:罗杰--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man.
(n.) The Pleistocene epoch, or deposits.
編輯:梅根
解釋/意思:
n. (geol.) the name given to the system comprising the older accumulations belonging to the Quaternary or Post-Tertiary division.
卡里校對
例句/造句/用法:
- An arctic fauna, musk ox, woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lemming, ushers in the Pleistocene. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Until the hard Pleistocene times they lived and died in the open, and their bodies were consumed or decayed altogether. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Nor is there any convincing evidence of man in America before the end of the Pleistocene. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
編輯:桑德拉