period

英['pɪəriəd] 美['pɪriəd]
  • n. 一段时间;周期;时期;课时;学时;句号;月经
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  • peri n.妖精;仙女;美女pref.周围;附近;环绕
    n. (名词)
    1. 周期
    2. 时代,时期
    3. 月经
    4. 课时,课,学时
    5. 阶段
    6. <美>句号
    7. 复合句,完整句
    8. 【数】循环节
    9. 【音】乐段
    10. 期间
    11. 现代,当代
    12. 【地】纪
    adj. (形容词)
    1. 某一时代的
    2. 逼真地描写某一特定历史时代的
    3. 具有某个时代特征的
    4. (像)过去某一特定历史时期的
    v. (动词)
    1. 终结,结束
    n. (名词)
    1. [C](一段)时间 an amount of time
    2. [C]时期,时代 a certain time in the life of a person or the history of a country
    3. [C]学时,课时 a lesson
    4. [C]句号,句点 a full stop

英英释义

Noun:
  1. an amount of time;

    "a time period of 30 years"
    "hastened the period of time of his recovery"
    "Picasso's blue period"

  2. the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

  3. (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

  4. a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed;

    "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"

  5. the end or completion of something;

    "death put a period to his endeavors"
    "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"

  6. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause;

    "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"
    "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"
    "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"

  7. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;

    "in England they call a period a stop"

1. She spent a period of time working with people dying of cancer.
她有一段时间曾帮助垂危的癌症患者。

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2. Over a given period, the value of shares will rise and fall.
股票的价值在某一特定的时期内会有涨跌。

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3. China enters a new five-year plan period next year.
中国明年开始进入新一个五年计划期。

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4. South Africa was going through a period of irreversible change.
南非正在经历一场不可逆转的变革。

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5. The next few weeks will be a period of readjustment.
接下来的几周将是适应阶段。

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    用作名词 (n.)
    1. He feels completely restored to health after a period of intensive care.
      通过一段时间的精心照顾,他感到身体完全康复了。
    2. The exercise period was similar to the previous study.
      运动周期类似前面的研究。
    3. Childhood is a period of rapid growth.
      幼年是生长迅速的时期。
    4. He teaches 10 periods a week.
      他每周授课10课时。
    5. This course needs 30 periods in all, and case analysis will use 4 periods.
      本课程的总学时是30学时,其中4学时是让学生做案例分析。
    6. Use a period at the end of the sentence.
      在一个句子的末尾用句号。
    7. How long is your period usually?
      通常你的月经周期多长?
    用作名词 (n.)
    1. The students' lunch period is from 11:30 to 12:30.
      学生们的午餐时间是从11点半到12点半。
    2. Mary was restored to health after a period of medical treatment.
      经过一段时间治疗,玛丽康复了。
    3. We lived in Beijing for a period.
      我们在北京住过一段时间。
    4. She was taken on for a three-month trial period before being accepted as a permanent member of staff.
      在她被接受为固定雇员之前经过了三个月的试用期。
    5. The work must be completed within a two-month period.
      工作须于两个月内完成。
    6. There were long periods when we had no news of him.
      我们曾有好长时期没有得到他的消息。
    7. He excels all other composers of his period.
      他胜过同时代的所有其他作曲家。
    8. We have entered upon a new period of history.
      我们进入了一个新的历史阶段。
    9. It was the most glorious period of the Roman Empire.
      这段时期是罗马帝国最辉煌的时期。
    10. They were young at the period of their entrance upon the stage of history.
      在他们登上历史舞台的时代,他们还很年轻。
    11. The cavemen lived in a period of history antecedent to written records.
      山顶洞人生活在有文字记载之前的一个历史时期。
    12. During the Warring States period, more walls were put up to defend the borders of the different kingdoms.
      战国时期,修建了更多的城墙来保卫不同王国的边境。
    13. The Ming period declined.
      明朝衰落了。
    14. The school day is divided into seven periods.
      学校一天有七节课。
    15. We have four periods before noon.
      上午我们有四节课。
    16. Each school day has six periods with a ten minute recess between.
      每一个上课日分为六节,中间各休息十分钟。
    17. Use a period at the end of the sentence.
      在一个句子的末尾用句号。
    18. The period marks the end of a sentence.
      句号标明一句话的结束。
    19. There should be a period at the end of a declarative sentence.
      陈述句的末尾应该有一句号。
    20. Ross is a girl of the period.
      罗斯是个现代姑娘。
    21. He is the youth of the period.
      他是一个现代青年。
    22. My period is only for half a day and I get terrible headaches.
      我月经来时通常只有半天,而且头痛得厉害。
    23. She had never had her period before.
      她以前从没来过月经。
n. (名词)
  1. period的基本意思是“一段时间”,是可数名词,复数形式为periods。
  2. period可作“时期,时代”解,指某个历史阶段或时期; 也可作“课时,学时”解; 还可作“月经(期)”解。
  3. 在美式英语中period的意思是“句号,句点”,相当于英式英语的a full stop。
  4. period与定冠词the连用,意思是“现代,当代”。
  1. period表示一段时间时,一般不指一点时间。如果从全部过程的角度来看,每一个period也可算是一“点”,常与介词at连用。 例:at any period of the year(在这一年的任何一个时段);
  2. 表示朝代时,用dynasty或period,如Qing Dynasty/Period(清朝)。表示某个皇帝的朝代时,用reign或period来表示,如the Qian Long Reign/Period(乾隆朝);
  3. 英美人还常把period解释为“句号”,不过在美国更普遍。
n. (名词)
period, age, generation
  • 这三个词的共同意思是“时期”。其区别是:
  • period是这组词中最一般的常用术语,用于任何时限,时间可长可短; age意为“时代,寿命”,常用来表示以一个中心人物或显著特征而闻名的时期; generation意为“代、世代”,用于上辈出世与下辈出世之间的时段,对人类来说这段时间有时可算作20年或25年,也可用于下辈本身。例如:
  • The period in which people learnt to make tools of iron is called the Iron Age.人类学会用铁制造工具的时代,我们称为“铁器时代”。
  • My generation behaves differently from my father's and grandfather's.我这一代人和我父辈及祖辈表现不同。
  • age,epoch,era,period,times
  • 这些名词均含“时期、时代”之意。
  • age常指具有显著特征或以某杰出人物命名的历史时代或时期。
  • epoch正式用词,侧重指以某重大事件或巨大变化为起点的新的历史时期。
  • era书面语用词,指历史上的纪元、年代,可与epoch和age互换,侧重时期的延续性和整个历程。
  • period最普通用词,概念广泛,时间长短不限,既可指任何一个历史时期,又可指个人或自然界的一个发展阶段。
  • times侧重某一特定时期。
  • 用作名词 (n.)
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