epoch
n. 时代,纪元; 〈地质〉世,期
If you refer to a long period of time as an epoch, you mean that important events or great changes took place during it.
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。
An epoch is a very long period of time in the earth's development, marked by particular physical or biological characteristics.
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。
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
age, epoch, era, period, times
这些名词均含"时期,时代"之意。
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.