• n. [地質] 世；新紀元；新時代；時間上的一點

來自希臘文epekhein, 停止，重新開始。來自epi-, 在上，-ekh, 持，握，詞源同scheme, school. 引申文新的時代，紀元。參照漢語的改朝換代。

epoch

epoch: [17] Historically, epoch means ‘point in time’, but its particular application to ‘point marking the beginning of a new period of time’ has led increasingly to its use in modern English for simply ‘historical period’. The word comes via modern Latin epocha from Greek epokhé, literally ‘pause, stoppage’, and hence ‘fixed point in time’. This was a derivative of epékhein ‘pause, hold back’, a compound verb formed from the prefix epí- ‘back’ and ékhein ‘hold’ (source of English hectic and related to scheme and sketch).
=> hectic, scheme, sketch

epoch (n.)

1610s, epocha, "point marking the start of a new period in time" (such as the founding of Rome, the birth of Christ, the Hegira), from Medieval Latin epocha, from Greek epokhe "stoppage, fixed point of time," from epekhein "to pause, take up a position," from epi "on" (see epi-) + ekhein "to hold" (see scheme (n.)). Transferred sense of "a period of time" is 1620s; geological usage (not a precise measurement) is from 1802.

1. It was meant to sound like an epoch-making declaration.

有意讓它聽起來像是一個劃時代的宣言。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The death of the emperor marked the end of an epoch in the country's history.

皇帝駕崩標志著該國歷史上一個時代的結束。

來自《權威詞典》

3. The Renaissance was an epoch of unparalleled cultural achievement.

文藝復興是一個文化上取得空前成就的時代.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

4. The epoch of revolution creates great figures.

革命時代造就偉大的人物.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. We're at the end of the historical epoch, and at the dawn of another.

我們正處在一個歷史時代的末期, 另一個歷史時代的開端.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》