eon
noun [ C ] (also mainly UK aeon) uk/ˈiː.ɒn/ us/ˈiː.ɑːn/
极长的时期;万古
a period of time that is so long that it cannot be measured
Across the eons, religion has provided structure in human lives.
informal I've been waiting eons for my new computer. 我等新电脑等了好长时间了。
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- Complex chemical interactions between body and mind that evolved eons ago may drive us to eat whenever possible.
- The couple have been married for 20 years - that's eons in Hollywood terms.
- The crater was gouged out of the dry landscape eons earlier by a meteorite impact.
- The Proterozoic is a geological eon spanning the time from the appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere to just before the proliferation of complex life.