| 词汇 | epochal |
| 释义 | epochal adjective formaluk /ˈiː.pɒk.əl/ us /ˈep.ə.k.əl/ used to refer to times or events that are very important because they involve new developments and great change: 新纪元的，划时代的，有重大意义的 An epochal shift in the global oil market is under way.全球石油市场正在发生划时代的变化。 an epochal moment in British culture英国文化史上的一个重要时刻 Very important or urgent all-important at all costsidiom be a matter of life and/or deathidiom cardinally chief imperative last but not leastidiom leading life-altering life-and-death life-changing overriding primary prime principally prior prized seminal tectonic weighty Examples of epochalepochal It was an epochal change, strongly felt in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This epochal paper, describing only three patients, shows a rare combination of clinical detail, clarity of rationale, and drama. Short term variation is calculated as the average of successive epochal (1/16 minute) differences. Importantly, the material itself is not thought to be representative of some epochal strategy or transcendental signification. It was a period of epochal change for all the arts, subsidized, commercial, and alternative alike. He draws our attention to an epochal judgment that initiated the ratio of one portion for daughters and two for sons in succession rules. Their theorizing was meant to clarify what was at stake in that epochal contest. Regarding the painting's relationship to epochal transitions, it is perhaps significant that a mixture of pedestrians and horse-drawn carts populate this area. He was claiming an epochal breakthrough, the way discovered to connect mind and brain within the framework of rigorous neurophysiology. Behind this epochal transition is the global downturn in fertility, a trend which is affecting societies across almost every region and stage of economic development. Have we witnessed epochal new empirical or conceptual breakthroughs that would warrant the over turning of that sober 19th-century decision? In his hands, the fast became an epochal, almost sacred event. State-party conflation is especially likely when parties perceive their role as that of a hegemonic movement with an epochal transformational mission. This book is part of a recent spate of work by scholars which should refocus attention on this epochal experience. How very true, and in this epochal book the reviewer is hard-pushed to give even a summary, such is the diversity and range of the material presented. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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