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小词详解 | advent
advent 英 [ˈædvent] 美 [ˈædvent]
That infections could sometimes cause a cancer to retreat, or even vanish, was known well before the advent of modern medicine.
感染有时会导致肿瘤缩小甚至消失,这一点人们在现代医学出现前很久就已知道。
——《经济学人》Since then we have not really updated our understanding of privacy, despite the advent of the Internet, fiber-optic cables and smartphones.
自那以后,即便互联网、光纤电缆和智能手机问世,我们并没有真正更新对于隐私的理解。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 重要人物或事物的到来
自喷气式飞机出现以来,旅行的速度得到提高。但对某些酷爱读书的人来说,读游记可以替代真正的旅行。
Since the advent of jet aircraft, travel has been accelerated. But for some avid readers, reading travel books is a surrogate for actual travel.春天来临时燕子成群飞来。
Swallows come by group at the advent of spring.
The disappearance of the great man was necessary to the advent of the great century.
那位大人物退出舞台对这个大世纪的兴盛是不可缺少的。
appearance: an act of arriving or becoming visible dawn: the beginning of a phenomenon or period of time, especially one considered favourable emergence: the process of coming into existence or prominence