| 单词 | world year |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworld year world year n. = Platonic year n. at Platonic adj. and n. Compounds.In quot. 1845 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > cycle of time > [noun] > astronomical cycle > cycles of celestial bodies great yeara1387 vertent year1635 Platonic year1639 saros1812 world year1845 1845 M. Fuller Woman in 19th Cent. 168 Suppose, at the end of your cycle, your great world-year, all will be completed, whether I exert myself or not. 1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 589 Heraclitus assumed a world-year or world-period, the beginning of which was the flood, and whose end was to be a universal conflagration, the whole to be periodically repeated forever. 1959 G. B. Ladner Idea of Reform i. i. 11 The Neopythagoreans..expected that the beginning of a new world year would bring about a general renewal of the world. c2001 H. Hotson Paradise Postponed 75 The Platonic ‘world year’..will end when all the planets simultaneously return to the places which they occupied when the world was created. < as lemmas |
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