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时代 (時代)

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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

时代 [shídài]
  1. 1. noun [指时期] age
    信息时代
    the information age
  2. 2. noun [指人生] period
    青年时代
    youth
    少年时代
    childhood

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

时代 [shídài]
  1. 1. times; age; era; epoch; day
    时代的凯歌
    a paean of triumph to the new age
    电子时代
    the era of electronics
  2. 2. the times; our age; the day; the present era
    时代
    sense of the times; climate of an era
    时代精神
    the spirit of our age; the spirit of the times
  3. 3. a period in one's life
    从青年时代到老年时代
    from youth to old age

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

时代 [shídài]
  1. 1. 根据经济、政治、文化等状况划分的历史时期和阶段
    石器时代
    封建时代

Examples

互联网时代是信息大爆炸的时代
The era of the internet, is the era of the proliferation of information.
那个时代是我们共时的,你我在那个时代的事情谁也不用瞒谁。
We live in the same time, we don't have to hide anything that happens in our time.
数字化时代是信息爆炸的时代
英雄辈出的时代
an age of heroes
时代变迁
the changes of the times
跟上时代的步伐
keep pace with the times
时代的宠儿
the idol of the day
我们正处在一个伟大的历史时代
We are living in a great historic era.
代表时代精神
embody the spirit of the era

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