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time HISTORICAL PERIODtaImn [C]times pl n a period in history历史时期Charles Dickens'novel "A Tale of Two Cities" is set at the time of the French Revolution.查尔斯·狄更斯的小说《双城记》是以法国大革命时期为背景的。In/During medieval times, women thought to be witches were burnt at the stake.中世纪时期，人们把被认作为女巫的女人烧死在柱子上。In times gone by, all crops were harvested by hand.在过去的年代中，所有的农作物都是用手工收割的。Times were hard (= The conditions of life were uncomfortable) when I was a boy.我小的时候日子很不好过。He is widely regarded as one of the best writers of modern/our times (= the present or very recent past).人们普遍认为他是现代/我们这个时代最好的作家之一。I never thought it would happen in my time (= before I died).我决想不到这会在我有生之年发生。Were things really so different in our great grandparents'time (= when they were alive)?在我曾祖父母时代，事情真的如此不同吗？We sat and talked about old times (= things that had happened to us in the past.)我们坐着谈论以往发生的事。At one time (= In the past)\\, George Eliot lived here.乔治·艾略特曾一度住在这里。If something or someone is before your time, they happened or existed before you were born, or were old enough to remember them.在自己出生前; 在自己有记忆前I don't remember The Beatles -- they were before my time.我不记得甲壳虫乐队----他们是我出生前的乐队。If something or someone is behind the times, they are old-fashioned.落后于时代; 老式My family has lived in this village from/since time immemorial/time out of mind (= since long ago in the past).我们家从很久以前起就住在这个村庄里。If you keep up/move/(Am) change with the times, you change your ideas, opinions or way of living or working to make them modern.跟上时代潮流I don't really like working on a computer, but you have to move with the times, I suppose.我实在不喜欢在计算机上工作，但是我想人必须跟上时代潮流。Time was (= there was a period in the past) when you could buy a loaf of bread for sixpence.过去，你花六便士能买到一个长面包。A time capsule is a container which is filled with objects considered to be typical of the present period in history and then buried, so that it can be dug up and studied in a future period.时代文物秘藏器(saying) 'Times are changing' means society is very different from the way it was in the past.时代在变You used to be able to call the mother of a child called John Smith Mrs Smith automatically, but times are changing and now mothers, fathers and children often have different surnames.你过去能把一个叫约翰·史密斯的孩子的母亲叫作史密斯太太，但是时代在变，现在母亲、父亲和孩子常有不同的姓。"The Times They Are A-Changing" (title of a song by Bob Dylan, 1964)“时代，它在变”（歌名，由鲍勃.戴伦演唱） Periods of time
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