timescape

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtaɪmskeɪp/    美 /ˈtaɪmskeɪp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A perspective over a period (particularly a long period) of time.
    — Our timescape of life is really a picture showing the fluctuating diversity of life over the past 700 million years. There was little diversity before that time owing to the dominance of blue-green algae. What our timescape shows is, as expected, a number of surges in the diversity of life: […]
  2. A multi-dimensional view of time, especially one in which time travel occurs.
    — timescape n. time conceived of, or perceived as, possessing multiple dimensions.

词形变化

timescapes plural

词源

From time + -scape, probably by analogy with landscape.
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