Dark Ages

短语

欧洲中世纪

发音

/ˈdɑːˌkeɪd͡ʒɪz/

词形变化

the Dark Ages

别名

dark Ages Dark Age darke ages

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    The period of European history encompassing (roughly) 476–1000 CE.

  2. 2.

    The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100–750 BCE).

  3. 3.

    The dark ages of Cambodia (c. 1450–1863).

  4. 4.

    The dark ages of Laos (c. 1707–1893).

  5. 5.

    The Dark Ages, 380 thousand to about 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

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  6. 6.

    Any relatively primitive period of time.

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词源

The phrase appears in writing of the English Reformation by Richard Sibbes (1620) and by George Abbot (1624), the archbishop of Canterbury. Both authors use it to refer to the period of papal supremacy before the Reformation. The earliest citation in Oxford English Dictionary is dated 1687. Use is specific to English therefore not likely to be from Latin.

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