the order in which a series of events happened; a list of these events in order 按事件发生的年代排列的顺序;年表 Historians seem to have confused the chronology of these events. 历史学家好像把这些事件发生的年代顺序搅混了。 a chronology of Mozart’s life 莫扎特生平年表
Extra ExamplesTopics Historyc1That these things happened is certain, but the chronology is not. 这些事情的发生是确定的,但时间顺序却不是。 They were not particularly interested in chronology. 他们对年表并不特别感兴趣。 We need to establish the exact chronology of this process. 我们需要建立这个过程的确切时间表。
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from modern Latin chronologia, from Greek khronos ‘time’ + -logia (see -ology).