gilded age
金色时代,黄金时代,锦绣时代,财富时代
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- : the period in the U.S. c1870–98, characterized by a greatly expanding economy and the emergence of plutocratic influences in government and society.
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The Progressive Era marked the end of America’s Gilded Age — its first Gilded Age, that is.
Yuen Yuen Ang is a political scientist at the University of Michigan, and the author of China’s Gilded Age.
However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.
In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.
Doctors have long wrestled with the age of consent when it comes to mature adolescents.
You have to acknowledge your age and position in life, for me quite a lot of those emotionally fueled songs were hormone songs.
The copilot on Flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.
Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.
The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.
In a warlike age this peacefulness of a monarch was the great and supernatural phenomenon.
He began his military career at the age of 11, and continued in the service nearly 60 years.
The faint candle-light glimmered on a ponderous gilded cornice, which had also sustained violence.