epoch
n. 時代,紀元; 〈地質〉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.
基督誕生是世界歷史上一個重要紀元的開端。
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.
在前寒武紀的最後1億年中,兩個主要的冰川時期對兩個地區都產生了影響。
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
這些名詞均含"時期,時代"之意。
Thus had opened the gas water heater the epoch which develops in China.
從而揭開了燃氣熱水器在中國發展的新紀元.
The invention of the atomic bomb begins a new epoch in history.
原子彈的發明在歷史上開始了一個新的歷史時期.
Or maybe you'll be an anthropologist who discovers exciting new fossils Pleistocene Epoch.
或者也許你會發現更新時代一塊令人激動的新化石,成為一名人類學家.
Anshi's Rebellion is the indication of the new epoch to the poetry.
安史之亂對於詩歌來說,標誌著一個新時代的開始.
Duhuangling gold deposit occurred within the quartz diorite of Late Yanshan Epoch.
杜荒嶺金礦床賦存於燕山晚期的石英閃長(斑)巖中.