英汉词典

period 基本解释

• n. 周期，期间；时期；月经；课时；（语法学）句点，句号
• adj. 某一时代的

period 词态变化

period 中文词源

来自希腊语periodos,圈，循环，来自peri-,在周围，hodos,上路，旅程，离开，词源同anode,method.引申词义时期，阶段，句号等。

period 英文词源

period

period: [14] Period means etymologically ‘going round’. It comes via Old French periode and Latin periodus from Greek períodos, a compound noun formed from the prefix perí- ‘round’ and hódos ‘way’ (source also of English episode, exodus [17], and method). The main sense of the word in modern English, ‘interval of time’ (which first emerged in post-classical Latin), comes from the notion of a ‘repeated cycle of events’ (now more obvious in the derivative periodical [17]).
=> episode, exodus, method

period (n.)

early 15c., "course or extent of time," from Middle French periode (14c.) and directly from Medieval Latin periodus "recurring portion, cycle," from Latin periodus "a complete sentence," also "cycle of the Greek games," from Greek periodos "cycle, circuit, period of time," literally "a going around," from peri- "around" (see peri-) + hodos "a going, way, journey" (see cede).

Sense of "repeated cycle of events" led to that of "interval of time." Meaning "dot marking end of a sentence" first recorded c. 1600, from similar use in Medieval Latin (in late 16c. English it meant "full pause at the end of a sentence"). Sense of "menstruation" dates from 1822. Educational sense of "portion of time set apart for a lesson" is from 1876. Sporting sense attested from 1898. As an adjective from 1905; period piece attested from 1911.

period 词组搭配

period 英文释义

1. an amount of time;

"a time period of 30 years"

"hastened the period of time of his recovery"

"Picasso's blue period"

2. one of three periods of play in hockey games

3. a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time;

"a novel from the Victorian period"

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

5. 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"--Hippocrates

"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"--Aristotle

6. 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"

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

"ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"

8. the end or completion of something;

"death put a period to his endeavors"

"a change soon put a period to my tranquility"

period 同义词解析

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。

period 双语例句

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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period 实用场景例句

a period of consultation/mourning/uncertainty

磋商 / 哀悼 / 形势不明朗的期间

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The factory will be closed down over a 2-year period/a period of two years.

这家工厂将在两年内关闭。

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This compares with a 4% increase for the same period last year.

这个数字与去年同期的4%升幅相近。

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This offer is available for a limited period only.

这项优惠仅在限期内有效。

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All these changes happened over a period of time .

所有这些变化都是在一段时间内发生的。

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The aim is to reduce traffic at peak periods .

目的是缓解高峰期间的交通状况。

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You can have it for a trial period (= in order to test it) .

这东西你可以试用一段时间。

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Which period of history would you most like to have lived in?

你最喜欢生活在哪一个历史时期？

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the post-war period

战后时期

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Like Picasso, she too had a blue period.

和毕加索一样，她也有过一段消沉时期。

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Most teenagers go through a period of rebelling.

大多数青少年都要经历一段叛逆期。

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the Jurassic period

侏罗纪

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‘What do you have next period? ’ ‘French. ’

“你下一节是什么课？”“法语。”

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a free/study period (= for private study)

自习课

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period pains

痛经

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monthly periods

月经

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When did you last have a period ?

你上一次月经是什么时候？

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The answer is no, period!

答复是不，不再说了！

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This crisis might last for a long period of time.

这次危机可能持续很长时间。

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...a period of a few months.

几个月时间

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...a period of economic good health and expansion...

经济健康发展并且不断扩张的一段时期

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He went through a period of wanting to be accepted...

有一段时间他很想被人接受。

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...the Roman period...

罗马帝国时代

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No reference to their existence appears in any literature of the period.

这一时期的文学作品中都没有提及他们的存在。

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...dressed in full period costume.

穿着宽松的古装

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...replicas of period instruments.

古乐器的复制品

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They accompanied him during his exercise periods.

练习的时候他们陪着他。

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...periods of private study.

自习课

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...taking his scripts to school in order to learn the lines in free periods.

把他的剧本带到学校以便空闲的时候背台词

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I don't want to do it, period.

我不想做，这事就到此为止吧。

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