A period of time between fixed points or marked by the continuation of a particular process.
时间间隔，时间跨度
the time span of one human life
一个人的寿命。
Example sentencesExamples
Second, Taiwan stretched its preparatory period over a longer time span than did China.
Since the time span of the play covered almost 70 years, three actors played Nellie at the various stages in her life.
Maybe I've just naturally reached the end of the time span that I'm able to cope with the sheer monotony of revision and exams.
It is a time span that contains such a variety of genres that such a task would seem to be almost unmanageable.
London to Manchester fell from 5 days to one day in the same time span.
This does mean that we will be making that delivery later in the day and over a longer time span.
I am not discounting global warming, I just don't see it happening over a time span of a few weeks rather a century or two.
Forty years is also a time span of special significance in several other civilizations.
Such a large time span meant that a number of styles developed within Gothic architecture and it is common to divide these styles into three sections.
History has been repeated once more with a time span of sixty years in between the teams.
An experiment on this scale has never done before, let alone in such a short time span.
If you know computers, you know that three years is a huge time span.
Who decided on a time span of nine hours and how can they justify this?
But it became clear that at least five forces, including the two in Yorkshire, would not hit the Government's target in such a short time span.
The time span between two censuses can be several years.
Three to four years is the usual time span for the player-caddy relationship.
But the wider the time span or the geographic stretch, the harder it is to make many fine distinctions.
We do not know who wrote most of them but they cover a time span of 150 years so they could not have all been written by Hippocrates.
In a similar vein, police also had to concentrate on a limited time span which focused on the mid-1990s.
In building scenarios, the group used a time span of 20 years, but some of the scenarios are more futuristic than others.
Synonyms
full length, length of time, time, time scale, period, term, span, spell, stretch, fullness, length, extent, continuation, continuance, perpetuation, prolongation