era
n. 时代; 年代; 时期
You can refer to a period of history or a long period of time as an era when you want to draw attention to a particular feature or quality that it has.
...the nuclear era...
核时代
...the Reagan-Bush era...
里根-布什时期
1. a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
2. a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
age, epoch, era, period, times
这些名词均含"时期,时代"之意。
We are living in the information era.
我们生活在信息时代.
It emerged as the most intractable issue of our era.
它成了我们时代最难解决的问题.
It marks the beginning of a new era in human history.
这标志着人类历史新纪元的开始.
Concord inaugurated a new era in airplane travel.
协和飞机开创了空中旅行的新纪元.
The October Revolution ushered in a new era in the history of mankind.
十月革命开创了人类历史的新纪元.