Iron Age

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈʌɪən eɪdʒ/   

英文释义

专有名词
  1. The most recent and debased of the four or five classical Ages of Man; hence, any period characterized by wicked behavior.
    — He that shall examine this iron age wherein we live, where love is cold […] may well ask where is charity?
  2. An age characterized by the use of iron.
  3. A level of culture in which humans used iron and the technology of ironworking. (Estimated to have begun in Europe about 1100 BC)

词形变化

the Iron Age canonical

词汇关系

并列词
Stone Age Bronze Age Golden Age Silver Age Heroic Age

词源

From iron + age, in the mythological sense a calque of Latin saecula ferrea, aetas ferrea; in the archaeological sense a calque of Danish jernalder.
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