- 1a/ˌnjuː ˈeɪdʒ/alternative spiritual (beliefs, healing)新時代風格的
Describing beliefs, health treatments, and ways of living that sit outside traditional Western religion and medicine, often borrowing ideas from Asian religions and using things like meditation, crystals, and healing energy.
New Age 用來形容一整類的想法和生活方式。它們不屬於西方的傳統宗教，也不屬於一般醫學。像水晶、冥想、能量、占星、自然療法都算。裡面很多概念是從亞洲的宗教借來的。這個詞大約在二十世紀後期開始常見。寫法上 New Age、new age、new-age 三種都看得到。用它的時候通常只是在分類，本身沒有褒貶。
示範例句 · Example
The shop by the station sells New Age books about crystals and meditation.
中文翻譯車站旁邊那家店賣關於水晶和冥想的新時代書籍。
New Age is used in front of a noun to sort it into this group: a New Age shop, a New Age class, a New Age magazine. It covers a wide mix — meditation, astrology, crystals, herbal healing, ideas about energy and nature. Most of the mix grew popular in the West in the late twentieth century. The words usually take capital letters, though you will also see new age and new-age. Using the word is mostly just labelling; on its own it does not say the speaker approves or disapproves.
常見搭配
New Age music
新世紀音樂
calm instrumental music linked to this movement
The café plays New Age music in the afternoons.
the New Age movement
新時代運動
the whole set of these beliefs and practices
Her essay traces the New Age movement back to the 1970s.
New Age therapy
新時代療法
healing methods outside ordinary medicine
He tried several New Age therapies before going back to his doctor.