Humanity's impact has been so strong that scientists say a new geological epoch began then.

人类的影响如此之大，以至于科学家说，一个新的地质时代从此开始了。

While that meteorite started a whole new era, the working group is proposing that humans only started a new epoch.

虽然那颗陨石开启了一个全新的时代，但该工作组提出，人类只是开启了一个新时期。

Many scholars believe that this represents a new geological epoch.

许多学者认为，这代表着一个新的地质时代。

This marked the beginning of a new epoch in the history of mankind.

这标志着人类历史上一个新纪元的开始。

That luncheon party, for a party it proved to be, was the beginning of a new epoch in my life.

那场午餐会，事实证明是一场聚会，是我人生新纪元的开始。

If the site is approved by the scientists who oversee the geological timescale, the official declaration of the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch will come in August 2024.

如果该地点得到监督地质时间表的科学家的批准，人类世将于2024年8月正式宣布为一个新的地质时代。

There is the assumption that humans have created a new geological epoch, and we need to learn how to see what our role is in it.

KH：假设人类创造了一个新的地质时代，我们需要学习如何看待我们在其中的作用。

For that reason, I imagine, the new epoch came in like a flood, breaking down the dykes and sweeping all our prudence and fear before it.

出于这个原因， 我想，新时代像洪水一样涌来， 冲垮了堤坝， 席卷了我们所有的审慎和恐惧。