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单词 silver age
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Definition of silver age in English:

silver age

noun
  • A period regarded as notable but inferior to a golden age, such as that of so-called silver Latin literature.

    the age may in hindsight be seen as not entirely contemptible, perhaps even as a silver age
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When Saturn was overthrown by his son, Jupiter, the silver age began.
    • I think that we are in, if not a golden age, then, at least, a very bright silver age.
    • If this book has a hero, writes Alan Watkins, it is Fleet Street in its silver age, from about 1955 to about 1985.
    • Weimar had its Golden classical age (Goethe, Schiller and Herder) and a silver age (Liszt); there was a string of Grand Dukes, Nietzsche, early Bauhaus and of course the proclamation of the Weimar Republic.
    • It's like the silver age of DC comics, but on screen.
 
 

Definition of silver age in US English:

silver age

noun
  • A period regarded as notable but inferior to a golden age.

    the age may in hindsight be seen as not entirely contemptible, perhaps even as a silver age
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Weimar had its Golden classical age (Goethe, Schiller and Herder) and a silver age (Liszt); there was a string of Grand Dukes, Nietzsche, early Bauhaus and of course the proclamation of the Weimar Republic.
    • I think that we are in, if not a golden age, then, at least, a very bright silver age.
    • If this book has a hero, writes Alan Watkins, it is Fleet Street in its silver age, from about 1955 to about 1985.
    • When Saturn was overthrown by his son, Jupiter, the silver age began.
    • It's like the silver age of DC comics, but on screen.
 
 
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