Period

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) the end or completion of something; 'death put a period to his endeavors'; 'a change soon put a period to my tranquility'.

(noun.) a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; 'ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods'.

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

(noun.) the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon.

汉丽埃塔整理

• Hence, provision was made for carrying a large stock of oil, and for giving a certain period of rest to that already used. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Before leaving this period of his career, it is to be noted that it gave Edison many favorable opportunities. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I am not sufficiently acquainted with such subjects to know whether it is at all remarkable that I almost always dreamed of that period of my life. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Among the earliest fire-arms of this period one was invented which was a breech-loader and revolver. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In either case the distance through which the prongs move is very small and the period is very short, so that the eye can seldom detect the movement itself. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In the medieval period there was a religious individualism. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Throughout the whole period of Mr. Candy's illness, from first to last, not one word about the Diamond escaped his lips. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The empire of the Great King enters upon a period of decay. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Everybody is taken in at some period or other. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• This is a determinant which burrows beneath our ordinary classification of progressive and reactionary to the spiritual habits of a period. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• A great deal of business was transacted in this short period. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The longer the period of rest of each picture on the screen, the better the detail and the clearer the picture. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• About a month before this period, some ingenious Frenchman had completed the discovery in the manner originally proposed by Dr. Franklin. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• There is another possible mode of transition, namely, through the acceleration or retardation of the period of reproduction. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Such a companion for herself in the periods of anxiety and cheerlessness before her! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• He infers that many species have kept true for long periods, whereas a few have become modified. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• There have been other periods of revolution. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In the earlier periods of the monarchy, the clergy of France appear to have been as much devoted to the pope as those of any other country. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the relative values of those two different species of food, bread and butcher's meat, are very different in the different periods of agriculture. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Tumbled together on the table are some pieces of iron, purposely broken to be tested at various periods of their service, in various capacities. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Habits easily become associated with other habits, with certain periods of time and states of the body. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Moreover, between each successive formation we have, in the opinion of most geologists, blank periods of enormous length. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Long periods of slowness and stagnation have alternated with shorter or longer periods of prolific growth, and these with seasons of slumber and repression. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Such periods have recurred in history. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But the value of this evidence depends entirely on the perfection of the geological record, in relation to periods remote in the history of the world. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• During the alternate periods of elevation and of stationary level the record will generally be blank. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Did they have restaurants there at three different periods of the world? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• From a very early age, however, there is no distinction of exclusive periods of play activity and work activity, but only one of emphasis. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The performance of this duty requires, too, very different degrees of expense in the different periods of society. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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