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 advent ['ædvənt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 来到, 来临

  1. Since the advent of atomic power, there have been great changes in industry.
    自从原子动力问世以后，工业发生了巨大的变化。
  2. The advent of the computer changed people's life greatly.
    计算机的出现极大地改变了人们的生活。
  3. Before the advent of the radio, there is advantage in being a shut in.
    在收音机出现之前，当一名隐士尚有不少好处。


advent
[ noun ]
  1. arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)

    2. <noun.act>
    the advent of the computer
  2. the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas

    3. <noun.time>
  3. (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment

    4. <noun.event>


Advent \Ad`vent\, n. [L. adventus, fr. advenire, adventum: cf.
F. avent. See {Advene}.]
1. (Eccl.) The period including the four Sundays before
Christmas.

{Advent Sunday} (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of
Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of
St. Andrew (Now. 30). --Shipley.

2. The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

3. Coming; any important arrival; approach.

Death's dreadful advent. --Young.

Expecting still his advent home. --Tennyson.

  1. The advent of a new president is accompanied by a flurry of media attention and public curiosity, Hess said, and the former White House occupant generally just drifts away from power, Hess said.
  2. The night of advent.
  3. For publishers, the advent of this new generation of electronic publishing technology represents both an opportunity and a challenge.
  4. The advent of double-stack rail-container trains has made it very attractive for Far Eastern shippers to unload goods on the West Coast and send them East by rail.
  5. Until the advent of modern packaging, the fish and chips came wrapped in an old newspaper to soak up the grease.
  6. But the advent of the new government also seemed to engender a new sense of confidence in the country at large, bringing her a crop of unusually high poll ratings.
  7. Continental Can, once a leading maker of steel cans for the food and beverage industry, saw its market erode in the 1970s with the advent of aluminum cans and the trend among food makers to manufacture their own cans.
  8. The advent of Europe's single market, together with domestic reforms to adjust to it, have forced Belgium's traditionally cosy banking system to take a cold look at itself.
  9. "Hasten the advent of Messianic redemption." Rabbi William Berkowitz, national president of the American Jewish Heritage Committee, suggested that Jews engage in a "spiritual election campaign" about basic decisions for their own lives.
  10. There is nothing like the advent of a new year to depress the Germans.
  11. Issues like the Taylor report and the advent of football's premiership are recurrent themes.
  12. For farmers, Monsanto President Earle H. Harbison Jr. thinks "biotechnology will be a major breakthrough, I think greater than the advent of the chemical era when we brought the pesticides to bear.
  13. The fuss over the advent of commercial television underscores how deep a change is taking place.
  14. While Congress has been enthusiastic about Nexrad, many members are concerned that some of the planned office closings are motivated as much by the need for budget cuts as the advent of the new radar, Stanford said.
  15. The textiles in question are made from alpaca and vicuna wool in Coroma, a town high in the Bolivian Andes, and have been woven in the same manner since before the advent of the Inca or the Spaniard.
  16. With the advent of labor unions and a more market-driven exchange rate, Korean companies suddenly found their products competing against better quality items from Japan, the U.S. and Europe.
  17. Hyperthermia, commonly used to treat infections before the advent of antibiotics, is still used against some cancers.
  18. Pools companies can advertise in newspapers and magazines, but not on television or radio. Leisure operators argue that the advent of the lottery has made nonsense of the notion that people should not be encouraged to gamble.
  19. The advent of the zinc drinking trough fed by clean piped water, spelt the end of field ponds on most farms.
  20. Then, with the advent of the yuppie mentality, status-oozing Rolex and PatekPhilippe watches took a bite from the top.
  21. The dialogue was renewed after the BA-KLM talks collapsed largely on the issue of control. It has since gathered pace with the advent this year of the new single European aviation market and the industry's financial troubles due to recession.
  22. This growing overlap of financial product has been glaringly evident at least since the advent of money-market funds in the 1970s.
  23. On the other, it finds itself cutting the pro-golf pie three ways instead of two with the advent of the full senior men's tour, and must periodically bid some of its best draws goodbye so they can bear children, as Nancy Lopez-Knight did last year.
  24. But with the advent of containerized shipping, there was a drop in hours worked at smaller ports such as Mobile.
  25. Pentti Kerkkainen, an analyst with Midland Walwyn Capital Inc. in Calgary, says the advent of horizontal drilling has made the recovery of larger quantities of heavy oil more economically feasible.
  26. His reign saw the advent of Iranian-sponsored Shiite terrorism, including the kidnapping of Westerners and the suicide bombings of U.S. and French military bases.
  27. The Social Democrats are the feudal barons trying to retard the advent of a modern society.
  28. With the advent of the Reagan administration, Sanchez Parodi acquired almost pariah status, a reflection of the view of then-Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. that Cuba was responsible for leftist turmoil in Central America.
  29. "This will be the advent of human rights and freedom of speech in Nepal," said Sahana Pradhan, a member of the Congress and the only woman opposition leader to meet the king.
  30. With the advent of trucking deregulation, he spun off the company's trucking unit in 1980.
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