| 单词 | middle period |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmiddle period middle period n. spec. †(a) Geology the Miocene epoch (obsolete); (b) the middle phase of a culture, an artist's work, etc.; frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > phase or stage of development > middle phase middle period1858 1858 Ladies' Repository Oct. 595/2 Palms and other southern plants, however, gave it a tropical character, and not till we reach the middle period—the miocene—does the vegetation become extra-tropical. 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man xiv. 266 A third period when the marine boulder drift formed in the middle period was ploughed out of the larger valleys by a second set of glaciers. 1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House IV. xxxvi. 50 Here's the dining room... This is the middle period, the Stewart style part. 1894 G. B. Shaw Music in London 1890–94 (1932) III. 157 Those features of the middle period Beethovenism of which we all have to speak so very seriously. 1951 T. S. Eliot Poetry & Drama ii. 20 His middle-period Plays for Dancers. 1975 B. Felton & M. Fowler Most Unusual 1 He painted completely new works in Vermeer's style, even inventing a non-existent middle period. 1999 BBC Music Mag. Apr. 88/3 Curtis, playing mostly ‘middle period’ sonatas, uses period instruments. < as lemmas |
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