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era

/eer-uh, er-uh/US // ˈɪər ə, ˈɛr ə //UK // (ˈɪərə) //

时代,时期,时代的发展,时代的到来

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.: The use of steam for power marked the beginning of an era.
    • : the period of time to which anything belongs or is to be assigned: She was born in the era of hansoms and gaslight.
    • : a system of chronologic notation reckoned from a given date: The era of the Romans was based upon the time the city of Rome was founded.
    • : a point of time from which succeeding years are numbered, as at the beginning of a system of chronology: Caesar died many years before our era.
    • : a date or an event forming the beginning of any distinctive period: The year 1492 marks an era in world history.
    • : Geology. a major division of geologic time composed of a number of periods.

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Examples

  • He describes an agency stuck in the mainframe era that needed to come up to speed quickly to fight the threat.

  • NBCUniversal is looking to update traditional TV measurement and planning for an era in which advertisers want to know how many sales they received versus how many people they reached.

  • On top of all this, the company is benefiting from consumers’ growing aversion to cash in the pandemic era.

  • Those of us who grew up in that era are now in our forties and fifties.

  • Speakers during the hearing floated several ideas about helping workers in the machine learning era.

  • Even in the medieval era this disparity made Christians uncomfortable.

  • The number of dissenters though is unprecedented in the modern era.

  • Community policing is expensive and, in an era of budget cuts, increasingly rare.

  • There were stories of distant strife, in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Northern Ireland, and those stories had the whiff of a different era.

  • One of the most famous directors of this era was Shin Sang-ok (신상옥).

  • Science teaches that man existed during the glacial epoch, which was at least fifty thousand years before the Christian era.

  • In the preceding chapter an examination has been made of the purely mechanical side of the era of machine production.

  • They embody in themselves the uppermost thought of the era that was dawning when they were written.

  • Here was a bit of a civilization of a building era, that was almost old, everything being relative.

  • How often she had remembered that day as an era; the beginning of the best things in her uneventful life!

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