epoch-making

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishepoch-makingˈepoch-ˌmaking adjective CHANGE/MAKE something DIFFERENTvery important in changing the way people live or the way a society is organized the epoch-making social changes of the 1960sExamples from the Corpusepoch-making• But then a truly epoch-making change in public attitudes took place.• an epoch-making event• It is indeed rare for the participants in such epoch-making events to have a complete understanding of them and their consequences.• This period of upheaval was to have an epoch-making impact upon the whole structure of Muscovite society.• This thrilling epoch-making race Was by agreement taking place Along the road beneath the hill To finish by the barley-mill.

单词	epoch-making
释义	epoch-making From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishepoch-makingˈepoch-ˌmaking adjective CHANGE/MAKE something DIFFERENTvery important in changing the way people live or the way a society is organized the epoch-making social changes of the 1960sExamples from the Corpusepoch-making• But then a truly epoch-making change in public attitudes took place.• an epoch-making event• It is indeed rare for the participants in such epoch-making events to have a complete understanding of them and their consequences.• This period of upheaval was to have an epoch-making impact upon the whole structure of Muscovite society.• This thrilling epoch-making race Was by agreement taking place Along the road beneath the hill To finish by the barley-mill.
随便看	underpin underplay somebody/something has yet to do something somebody/something is assumed to be (doing) something somebody/something is here somebody/something is here to do something somebody/something is no ordinary ... somebody/something is not all that somebody/something is not known to be something somebody/something is the exception that proves the rule somebody/something is to blame (for something) somebody/something makes my flesh creep somebody/something of note somebody/something rocks somebody/something rules somebody/something/it won’t be long somebody/something’s former self somebody’s (main) squeeze somebody’s (political/religious etc) affiliation somebody’s achievement in (doing) something somebody’s affections somebody’s aim is true somebody’s alma mater somebody’s alter ego somebody’s ambitions of doing something