period

英[ˈpɪəriəd]
美[ˈpɪriəd]

基本释义

  • n.一段时间; 阶段; 时期; 课; 月经; 句号
  • adj.具有每个时代特征的
  • adv.到此为止

词性变化

实用例句

a period of consultation/mourning/uncertainty

磋商 / 哀悼 / 形势不明朗的期间

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

This offer is available for a limited period only.

这项优惠仅在限期内有效。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

The aim is to reduce traffic at peak periods .

目的是缓解高峰期间的交通状况。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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?

牛津词典

the post-war period

战后时期

牛津词典

Like Picasso, she too had a blue period.

和毕加索一样,她也有过一段消沉时期。

牛津词典

Most teenagers go through a period of rebelling.

大多数青少年都要经历一段叛逆期。

牛津词典

the Jurassic period

侏罗纪

牛津词典

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

“你下一节是什么课?”“法语。”

牛津词典

a free/study period (= for private study)

自习课

牛津词典

period pains

痛经

牛津词典

monthly periods

月经

牛津词典

When did you last have a period ?

你上一次月经是什么时候?

牛津词典

The answer is no, period!

答复是不,不再说了!

牛津词典

This crisis might last for a long period of time.

这次危机可能持续很长时间。

...a period of a few months.

几个月时间

...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

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

有一段时间他很想被人接受。

...the Roman period...

罗马帝国时代

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。

...dressed in full period costume.

穿着宽松的古装

...replicas of period instruments.

古乐器的复制品

They accompanied him during his exercise periods.

练习的时候他们陪着他。

...periods of private study.

自习课

...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

I don't want to do it, period.

我不想做,这事就到此为止吧。

真题例句

Leah easily could have fallen into a trap of feeling content; instead, her energy sparked a period of experimentation and renewal.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

At some point, almost all of us will experience a period of radical professional change.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

It was a wonderful period.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

In fact, I’d like to relive a period I’ve already lived: the 1960s—I was in my twenties, and everything was being renewed.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Writers may experience periods of time in their life when they just can't produce anything.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

His fall from grace in the 1980s, followed by his return to Apple in 1996 after a period in the wilderness, is an inspiration to any businessperson whose career has taken a turn for the worse.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

The past 15 years or so have been a noticeable period of improvement for food in England," the English chef says, citing the trend in British cuisine for better ingredients, preparation and cooking methods, and more appealing presentation.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

If you age more slowly over a longer time period, then you are in some sense younger for longer.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

In fact, I'd like to relive a period I've already lived: the 1960s—I was in my twenties, and everything was being renewed.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

They found that, overall, 31% of marriages ended in divorce over the period studied.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class—the same that produced gentlemen scientists, authors, antique experts, and patrons of the arts.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Middle school is a crucial period when students may become keenly interested in advanced mathematics.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Perhaps there is less to fight about, with the country in a period of tranquility and the dangers of drug abuse and other unwholesome behavior well known.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

It was in a free fall, and it was a veryscary period, economist Martin Neil Baily said.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

Basically the tech industry seems to be in an awkward period now.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The third element of love in Sternberg’s theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

They have to operate for long periods of time before the costs of development have been recovered.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

This means that there could be an extra three billion mouths to feed by the end of the century, a period in which substantial changes are anticipated in the wealth, calorie intake and dietary preferences of people in developing countries across the world.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Copyright laws differ from country to country, but in general protection extends for the duration of an author's life and for a substantial period afterwards, thus allowing the author's heirs to benefit.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

In Britain and America, this post-death period is 70 years

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Nobody ever had a better time or did more exotic strange things than I did in an 80-year period.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Ebola was so deadly and killed so quickly that within a short period of time, there was no one around to infect.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

million years, a period when global temperatures probably were not significantly higher than they are today.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

In the case of Facebook, the company says data may hang around until the URL in question is reused, which is usually "after a short period of time", though obviously that time can vary considerably

出自-2010年12月听力原文

For us it'll have to operate for long periods of time in very cold temperatures.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

And a 2015 study from the University of California, Berkeley, found that teens who go to bed late are more likely to gain weight over a five-year period.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 

Beyond revealing population-wide patterns, the right combination of data and analysis can also help individuals identify unique characteristics of their own behavior, including conditions that could indicate the need for some form of intervention-such as

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

But by buying while young, the premiums are paid in for a longer period of time.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Sadly, the data also showed face-to-face socializing and sports activity had declined over the period covered by the survey.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The study was conducted over a period of decades.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The third element of love in Sternberg's theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The value of a recovery period rises in proportion to the amount of work required of us.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The very lack of a recovery period is dramatically holding back our collective ability to be resilient and successful.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

This period was one of inter-elite rivalry, in which nobles sought to increase their influence by funding the construction of churches and other buildings.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Trackers, which are ongoing projects that look at trends or customer satisfaction over a long period of time.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

When they detect an extended dry period, they divert their metabolisms, producing sugars and certain stress- associated proteins and other materials in their tissues.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

As a senior next year, I think extra periods should be used to take optional subjects.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读表达 原文

But not all cities develop slowly over a long period of time.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

For most high school students, free periods are useless.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读表达 原文

However, now they are becoming an extended period of adolescence, during which many of today's students and are not shouldered with adult responsibilities.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

If special clothes are used, they should truly represent a given period.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

"NUS statistics show that over 40% of students are forced to work during term time and the figure increases to 90% during vacating periods, " he said.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

So use our extra periods to find out what we want to do in college.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读表达 原文

That was the period of time I enjoyed most in toronto.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

The downside is that in those dead periods I often would let my thoughts flow and sometimes would have an unexpected insight or idea.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The previous trial found that escalators at the station normally carried 2, 500 people between 8:30 am and 9:30 am on a typical day, rising to 3, 250 during the researching period.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The synapses in the mice taken at the end of a period of sleep were 18 per cent smaller than those taken before sleep, showing that the connections between neurons weaken while sleeping.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Their destination is the fiery food and bbq festival which is held over a period of three days every march.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

There's a new indoor play centre, plus the special events and workshops, and others during school holiday periods.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

This tour transports you back in time to one of San Francisco's most fantastic periods, the 1950s! Enjoy fun history as we take you through San Francisco for a free taste of ice cream.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page-including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns-debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretation but at the same time obscure or even close off others.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

If you’re in a period of change or just feeling stuck and in a rut, now may be a good time.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

The development of the Elizabethan drama for the next twenty-five years is of exceptional interest to students of literary history, for in this brief period we may trace the beginning, growth, blossoming, and decay of many kinds of plays, and of many great careers.

出自-2018年考研翻译原文

Shakespeare’s life time was coincident with a period of extraordinary activity and achievement in the drama.

出自-2018年考研翻译原文

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

Divorced persons may remarry, but a gender prejudice shows up: The divorced male doesn't have a waiting period before he can remarry while the woman must wait ten months.

2016年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

If you're in a period of change or just feeling stuck and in a rut, now may be a good time.

2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Indeed, this period of economic weakness may reinforce class divides, and decrease opportunities to cross them—especially for young people.

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Yet it is principally during this period of stronger governance that CEO pay has been high and rising.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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. 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"

同义词辨析

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。