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单词 dark age
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dark age

also Dark Age
Word forms: plural dark ages
1. countable noun
If you refer to a period in the history of a society as a dark age, you think that it is characterized by a lack of knowledge and progress.
[written, disapproval]
The Education Secretary accuses teachers of wanting to return to a dark age.
2. proper noun
The Dark Ages are the period of European history between about 500 A.D. and about 1000 A.D.

dark age in British English

(dɑːk eɪdʒ)
noun
If you refer to a period in the history of a society as a dark age, you think that it is characterized by a lack of knowledge and progress
The Education Secretary accuses teachers of wanting to return to a dark age.

Examples of 'dark age' in a sentence
dark age

It could have saved our lives in darker ages.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But they are still in the dark ages compared with criminal courts.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Both monarchs aspired to be father figures to their people in a dark age.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Welcome to the new dark age.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Yet parts of Britain are in the dark ages.
The Sun (2014)
But that's over and we are back in the dark ages.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
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