单词	advent
释义	adventad‧vent /ˈædvent/ ●○○ noun written Word Origin WORD ORIGINadvent Origin: 1000-1100 Latin adventus ‘arrival’, from advenire; ➔ ADVENTURE Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS However, it was the advent of television which really transformed sportsmen. The advent of natural gas for use in the ammonia process occurred in the early 1970s. The advent of policy activism implied an adherence to policy rules radically different from those which had been applied previously. The advent of scientific thinking has institutionalised the idea that knowledge has to progress and can do so only through research. The most alarming statistic was the state of the game before the advent of this precipitous decline. This type of person continued to visit the island until the 1960s and the advent of air travel for all. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the advent of something Many more people died of infections before the advent of penicillin. Even with the advent of mass unemployment, this trend has continued, if anything more strongly. External information provision has seen the advent of end-user searching of external hosts. Long before the advent of robots and personal computers, he invented a race of super-intelligent robots. Not since the advent of beat-the-clock recipes has cooking dinner become so streamlined. Or you can shorten the story to hasten the advent of dream-time. That changed dramatically with the advent of air conditioning. With the advent of liberalism, it became a doctrine. With the advent of word processors, the use of standard letters and paragraphs has been made easier. the advent of something the time when something first begins to be widely used SYN  coming:  the advent of the computer
随便看	post-haste posthumous posthumously postie post-industrial posting Post-it postman Postman Pat postmark postmaster postmenopausal postmistress postmodern postmodernism postmodernist post-mortem postnatal Post Office post office post office box Post Office Tower post-operative postpaid postpartum

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