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 era ['ɪrə]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 时代, 纪元, 时期

  1. We are living in the computer era.
    我们正生活在计算机时代。
  2. It's an era of the miniskirt in the seventies.
    七十年代是超短裙时代。
  3. Concorde inaugurateda new era in aeroplane travel.
    协和式飞机开创了空中旅行的新纪元.


era
[ noun ]
  1. a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

  2. <noun.time>
  3. a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods

  4. <noun.time>
  5. (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched

  6. <noun.communication>


Era \E"ra\, n.; pl. {Eras}. [LL. aera an era, in earlier usage,
the items of an account, counters, pl. of aes, aeris, brass,
money. See {Ore}.]
1. A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a
series of years is reckoned.

The foundation of Solomon's temple is conjectured by
Ideler to have been an era. --R. S. Poole.

2. A period of time reckoned from some particular date or
epoch; a succession of years dating from some important
event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the
Christian era (see under {Christian}).

The first century of our era. --M. Arnold.

3. A period of time in which a new order of things prevails;
a signal stage of history; an epoch.

Painting may truly be said to have opened the new
era of culture. --J. A.
Symonds.

Syn: Epoch; time; date; period; age; dispensation. See
{Epoch}.

  1. At that time, government used its muscle to solve the problem; but in the current era of democracy, it can't.
  2. The criticism has extended to the "era of stagnation" under Leonid I. Brezhnev, who was Communist Party chief from 1964 to 1982.
  3. Some job losses among blacks also resulted. Trade sanctions were probably less effective: merchandise exports held up remarkably well during the sanctions era.
  4. In his farewell address to the nation Saturday, he alluded to the current criticism of that 21-year era, allowing that some "bad things" had occurred but sticking fast to his lifelong belief in the Socialist creed.
  5. The fragmentation was acceptable when Chicago stuck to beans and bellies, but it does not work in the era of index arbitrage, when traders simultaneously do business in multiple markets.
  6. South Korean President Roh Tae-woo left for San Francisco Sunday, saying that his talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev would open a new era in relations between the two once hostile nations.
  7. The latest push to help veterans and troops comes at a time when the costs of existing obligations to veterans of World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the peacetime era are causing widespread concern.
  8. The B-2 was designed as a strategic nuclear-armed bomber, and it does instantly degrade the Soviets' $350 billion air defense system. But it's even better as a weapon for the post-Cold War era.
  9. It is a mission that remains relevant in the post-segregation era.
  10. If Ortega wins and shows he is both committed to democratic values and to refraining from interfering in neighboring countries, the administration and the Congress agree that a new era in U.S.-Nicaraguan relations is possible.
  11. This is the key question for U.S. foreign policy in the postcold-war era.
  12. Auto makers would have to rip up their current product programs, which were crafted in the cheap-gas era of the late 1980s. They would also have to build a far higher proportion of small cars than they currently envision.
  13. During the Voinovich and Forbes era, the Cleveland skyline expanded with office towers, a Lake Erie harbor project and the start-ups of two bank skyscrapers, hotels, a shopping mecca and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
  14. "We're entering an era when manufacturing people need to take a more aggressive role in guiding their firms," says Jeffrey Goldhar, the president of the Illinois Institute of Technology.
  15. But certainly, in an era of glass-jawed politicians, he went the distance without disabling scar or scorn, and set a modern standard for survival.
  16. If Noriega had been flown out, "the loyalist forces wouldn't have anybody to be loyal to" and the post-Noriega era would have begun in Panama, one official said.
  17. Their hope, suspended in time for fifty years of Cold War, has come alive in this new, post-Communist era.
  18. Bhandari sued the bank in 1984, invoking a Civil War era law most often used these days to battle private bias against racial minorities.
  19. EVEN without the 11 players who retired, defaulted or otherwise withdrew, the 25th US Championships of the open era have provided enough on-court shocks among the men to be sub-titled 'Slaughter on 10th Avenue.'
  20. It was signed as prelude to a 34-nation summit originally called to discuss European security in the post Cold War era, but shadowed by the Persian Gulf crisis.
  21. Medicaid has been a particularly attractive vehicle for federal policy makers in an era of deficits and spending restraints because for every dollar in added Medicaid benefits, states pick up 45 cents on average.
  22. It is this era of Arab history, and the European domination that followed, that created many of the tensions being played out in the Gulf today.
  23. The Library of Alexandria lasted for hundreds of years after the conqueror's death in Babylon at age 33 but it disappeared with few traces early in the Christian era.
  24. The distiller is also trying to shrink dependence on its spirits business, in an era when liquor consumption is declining at about 2% annually.
  25. A new theme area to be completed in early 1999 will recreate the '30s and '40s movie era, with an "idealized Hollywood Boulevard" offering shops and restaurants.
  26. "I personally guarantee your safety," Premadasa said at a public meeting in the village of Girandurukotte, northeast of Colombo. "Let us forget the past and start a new era.
  27. Other artifacts found in the site were identified as tablets and inscriptions that could contain important information about the Assyrian king and his era.
  28. "The year 1990 will be an era of exchange," Unification Minister Lee Hong-koo said in an interview with Yonhap, the South Korean news agency, published Wednesday.
  29. In an era of communication conglomerates and impersonal service, the family-run Calaveras Telephone Co. gives residents of this remote cattle-ranching community in the Sierra foothills a personal touch.
  30. "But Volkswagen doesn't do rebates." During the Gorbachev era, political relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union developed rapidly.
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