英:['epəkəl]
美:['epəkəl]
英:['epəkəl]
美:['epəkəl]
Adjective
1. highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era;
"epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill"
"an epoch-making discovery"
1680年代,来自于 epoch + -al (1)。
The first known use of epochal was in 1685
1 It's visually impressive romping fun, maintaining a healthy balance between the laughs and the scares – although whether it really needed to be half an hour longer than Victor Fleming's epochal original remains a moot point.
2 Curiously for someone so associated with the epochal events of his generation, Wenner decided at the last minute not to attend; nor was he at Woodstock.
3 This tour was an epochal moment in jazz, seeming to indicate two separate paths for the music’s future.
4 Mr. Coltrane, 50, and Mr. Garrison, 45, are scions of important jazz artists whose lives were entwined: the saxophonist John Coltrane and the bassist Jimmy Garrison, who played in Coltrane’s epochal quartet of the 1960s.
5 A hallmark of Mr. Gilbert’s work was his interest in writing history from the bottom up, incorporating the stories of ordinary people caught up in the sweep of epochal events.
6 Even the highly successful "True Blood," with its steadily ascending viewership across four seasons and sturdy DVD sales, has somehow been regarded as kid stuff alongside the epochal, 330-pound goombah that was "The Sopranos."
7 Ptolemaeus’s epochal influence has had the effect of making ancient astronomy seem, to us, a lot less diverse than it was.
8 Wilson and Glass, who would both rise to the top of their fields, would collaborate on the 1976 opera "Einstein on the Beach," described as "epochal" by the New York Times for breaking with conventions.
9 Between seasons he did Popeye, and a series of epochal one-man concerts that crowded the stage with figments of his teeming brain.
10 Now that this epochal masterpiece is on Netflix, you can finally watch it on an endless loop without the VH1 logo taking up half the screen.
11 It’s worth mentioning because that conflict is the reason for the movie’s undeserved place in movie history as an epochal disaster.
12 After she met Foster at Antioch College in the mid-1950s, they fell hard for the rawest, wildest strains of old American folk, encapsulated by Harry Smith’s epochal compendium.
13 Jude, age 2 * As mentioned, the award of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the Al-Khawaja family would constitute the prize’s first acknowledgment of the epochal Arab Spring movement as such.
14 The result made for an epochal rock moment, rendered especially poignant by Lennon's senseless murder in December 1980.
15 To set up a brief chronicle for LI Hua is beneficial to academic research in that it may establish a solid epochal and spatial foundation for the research of LI Hua.
为李华编撰简明年谱是一件有益的工作,它有助于将李华的研究建立在可靠的时空基础之上。
16 The idea that webs of allegiance, bonded by the conviction that one day their minority will become a majority, have brought about epochal change is not a new insight.
17 Ms. Parks’s mighty aims are signaled by the noble template she has chosen to tell her story: Homer’s “The Odyssey,” the epic poem about a Greek warrior’s long journey home from an epochal conflict.
18 A scientific definition should point out its nature and reflect its epochal characteristics.
科学的城市定义应反映出城市的本质和时代特征.
19 Economic globalization and regional regularization are the epochal characteristics in the world of today.
经济全球化和区域集团化是当今世界经济的时代特征.
20 In a globally warmed era of white noise far from the optimistic philosophy of The Beatles’ epochal “All You Need Is Love,” both Bunyan and her familial “Heartleap” are practically defiant statements of slow living.
1 开创新纪元的
3 划时代的
4 开新纪元的
5 前所未闻的
6 史无前例的
8 时代的