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Something epoch-making is so important that life, or a whole society, is different after it. It does not mean “quite useful” or “a good year for the company.” It means the kind of change that splits time into before and after — a public railway, a vaccine that ends a plague, a law that remakes who counts as a citizen. The word is strong and a little ceremonial, at home in history books and speeches. Though actually, ads and headlines borrow it for product launches that do not change how people live at all. When the change is merely large, important is the honester word.
劃時代的
組成epoch + making. Copied from German epochemachend, “making an epoch.”
同家族的字
- epochthe stretch of history this kind of change is said to open
原始詞典資料1 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。
epoch-makingadj
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Constituting an epoch; opening a new era; introducing new conceptions or a new method in the treatment of a subject; highly novel and influential.
- The play itself was "sound," though not epoch-making. The performance of the leading lady was satisfactory and exactly what was to be expected from her.
- Equally to be expected, in view of the trend of Government legislation and pronouncements over the past few years—but no less epoch-making for that—is the proposal that the railways and canals shall cease to be common carriers and be entirely free to fix their own passenger and freight charges, […].
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。