period
美[ˈpɪriəd] adj.具有某个时代特征的；（关于）过去某一特定历史时期的；（家具、服饰、建筑等）某一时代的
网络周期；时期；期；时代
1 . She spent a period of time working with people dying of cancer.
她有一段时间曾帮助垂危的癌症患者。
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2 . Over a given period, the value of shares will rise and fall.
股票的价值在某一特定的时期内会有涨跌。
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3 . China enters a new five-year plan period next year.
中国明年开始进入新一个五年计划期。
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4 . South Africa was going through a period of irreversible change.
南非正在经历一场不可逆转的变革。
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5 . The next few weeks will be a period of readjustment.
接下来的几周将是适应阶段。
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1.an amount of time;
a time period of 30 years
2.one of three periods of play in hockey games
3.a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time;
a novel from the Victorian period
4.the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
5.the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause;
the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
6.a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
in England they call a period a stop
7.a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed;
ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
8.the end or completion of something;
death put a period to his endeavors