喜樂美語
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    nB2

    /ˈɪrə/ · /ˈɪərə/

    A long period of time in history that people remember for a special event, leader, or way of life.

    時代 / 年代

    複數 eras

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

You can picture an era as a long stretch of history that people mentally bundle together and give a name to, because one big thing — a ruler, an event, a way of living — colours the whole period.

可以想成：era 的畫面比較像「歷史上一段被人們打包成一塊、還給了名字的長時間」。之所以能成為一塊，是因為有某件大事…更多收起可以想成：era 的畫面比較像「歷史上一段被人們打包成一塊、還給了名字的長時間」。之所以能成為一塊，是因為有某件大事——某位領袖、某個事件、某種生活方式——把整段時間都染上同一個顏色。

原始詞典資料11 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。

eranoun/ˈɪə.ɹə/

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    A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.

    • Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
    • In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
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    geographygeologynatural-sciencesA geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.

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    informalAn indefinite period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular interest.

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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。