epoch-making
划时代的,划时代,具有划时代意义的,划时代的意义
Definitions
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- : opening a new era, as in human history, thought, or knowledge; epochal: an epoch-making discovery.
Examples
Everyone out there who says, “Charlie Hebdo provoked,” is making the same fundamental error.
As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.
The pulps brought new readers to serious fiction, making it less intimidating with alluring art and low prices.
This is not making the 228,000 residents of Irving, Texas feel very relaxed.
First, they allow Paul to siphon off attention from whichever potential candidate is making news.
She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
Besides these, twenty thousand Indians are under the care of secular priests—making a total of two hundred and five thousand.
Robert Fitzgerald received a patent in England for making salt water fresh.
So intelligent were her methods that she doubtless had great influence in making the memory of his art enduring.