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When people say Elizabethan, they almost always mean the years 1558 to 1603, when Elizabeth I was queen of England. You meet it in front of things from that time: Elizabethan theatre (Shakespeare was writing then), Elizabethan houses, Elizabethan clothes with those high ruffs around the neck.
When people say Elizabethan當人們說Elizabethan的時候， they almost always mean the years 1558 to 1603幾乎都是指1558年到1603年這段時間， when Elizabeth I was queen of England也就是伊莉莎白一世當英國女王的那段時間。You meet it in front of things from that time它常常放在那個時代的東西前面： Elizabethan theatre (Shakespeare was writing then)像Elizabethan theatre（那時候莎士比亞正在寫劇本）、 Elizabethan housesElizabethan houses（那個時代的房子）、 Elizabethan clothes with those high ruffs around the neck還有Elizabethan clothes，就是脖子上那種高高的縐領。
It is an adjective first — an Elizabethan play — though actually you can also call a person of that age an Elizabethan. Historians use it as a neat label for a whole world of writing, building, and sea travel, even though 1560 and 1600 were not quite the same England.
It is an adjective first它主要是形容詞—— an Elizabethan play像an Elizabethan play這樣—— though actually you can also call a person of that age an Elizabethan不過其實你也可以把那個時代的人叫做an Elizabethan。Historians use it as a neat label for a whole world of writing, building, and sea travel歷史學家用它來簡單概括整個寫作、建築、航海的世界， even though 1560 and 1600 were not quite the same England儘管1560年和1600年的英格蘭其實不太一樣。
People sometimes talk about a “second Elizabethan age” for Elizabeth II; that is a stretch and a bit of historical play, not the usual meaning.
People sometimes talk about a "second Elizabethan age" for Elizabeth II人們有時候會用「second Elizabethan age」『第二個伊莉莎白時代』這種說法來講伊莉莎白二世； that is a stretch and a bit of historical play, not the usual meaning這是一種延伸講法，帶點歷史上的玩味，不是一般的意思。
The word is fairly formal. You will meet it in literature and history, not in the street.
The word is fairly formal這個字算是相當正式。 You will meet it in literature and history你會在文學和歷史裡遇到它， not in the street而不是在日常街頭對話裡。
組成Elizabeth (the queen’s name) + -an (of or belonging to). Built for Elizabeth I; the same pattern has been used of other queens named Elizabeth, but this entry is her age.
同家族的字
- Elizabeththe name the word is built from
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Elizabethanadj/ɪˌlɪzəˈbiːθ(ə)n/
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Pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603.
- This Elizabethan Era, and all its nobleness and blessedness, came without proclamation, preparation of ours. Priceless Shakspeare^([sic]) was the free gift of Nature; given altogether silently;—received altogether silently, as if it had been a thing of little account. And yet, very literally, it is a priceless thing.
- Although the potato actually has no exciting value, it was believed, in the seventeenth century, to possess definite aphrodisiac qualities, and is frequent mentioned in this respect in Elizabethan drama.
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Often preceded by new or second: pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, monarch of the United Kingdom, from 1952 to 2022.
- Some people have expressed the hope that my reign may mark a new Elizabethan age. Frankly I do not myself feel at all like my great Tudor forbear, […] But there is at least one very significant resemblance between her age and mine. For her Kingdom, small though it may have been and poor by comparison with her European neighbours, was yet great in spirit and well endowed with men who were ready to encompass the earth.
- (The second Elizabethan era, that is. I’m not a maniac.)
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Pertaining to the reign of Empress Elizabeth of Russia, from 1741 to 1762.
- In any case, his [Peter III’s] action was a complete reversal of the Elizabethan policy, and his offer of unconditional peace eliminated Russia’s chance to secure concessions from Frederick.
- The extent of her [Catherine the Great’s] knowledge and her appetite for reading made her one of the best-read women in Europe and the most unusual and outstanding woman in Elizabethan Russia.
Elizabethannoun/ɪˌlɪzəˈbiːθ(ə)n/
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A person (especially a writer) who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603.
- Here too [Francis] Drake had luck: he took advantage of the Sultan of Ternate's war with the Portuguese garrison upon Tidore to make a treaty with him to sell his produce exclusively to the English. The literal-minded Elizabethans attached great importance to this: on the principle of never throwing an argument away, they regarded it as giving them a right to share in the spice-trade.
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A person who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, monarch of the United Kingdom, from 1952 to 2022.
- The ‘New Elizabethans’ were to be in continuity with their past, but also youthful, inventive, exploratory – a spirit most clearly to be seen in the arts.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。