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基本词义
century
美音:[´sentʃərı ]
英音:[´sentʃərı ]
n.世纪,百年,百个,板球中的一百分,百元(钞票)
词义详解
century
/'sentʃərɪ; `sɛntʃərɪ/
n
1 (a) period of
100 years 100 年.
(b) (abbr 缩写 c, cent) any of the periods of
100 years before or after the death of Jesus Christ 世纪(指耶稣基督去世以前或以
後每 100 年的期间)
*the 20th century, ie AD 1900-1999 第 20 世纪(公元 1900-1999 年)
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* at the turn of the century, ie when one ends and the next begins 在两个世纪之交
(在一个世纪结束, 下一个世纪开始时).
2 (in cricket) score of
100 runs by one batsman in an innings (板球)(击球员在一局所得的)百分
*make/score a century 得百分
* a double century, ie
200 runs in an innings 双百分(一局得 200 分).
单词例句
实例 1 组:
1. By the end of the next century, a single city may have more than 100 million
inhabitants.
到下个世纪末,一个城市的居民就可能超过一亿。
2. But the cause of malaria remained unknown to 17th-century medicine, and so there
was investigation by experiment.
但对于 17 世纪的医学来说,疟疾的起因仍属未知,所以便通过实验来进行调
查。
3. We live in the twentieth century.
我们生活在二十世纪。
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4. Who could have imagined, in the mid 1970s, for example, that by the end of the
20th century, computers would be as common in people´s homes as TV sets?
举个例子吧,在 20 世纪 70 年代中叶又有谁能想得到在 20 世纪末的时候,家
庭用的计算机会像电视机一样普遍?
5. The twentieth century is the century of planetary overcrowding.
20 世纪是地球上人口过度拥挤的不安定的世纪.
6. The twentieth century is the century of planetary overcrowding.
20 世纪是地球上人口过度拥挤的不安定的世纪.
7. The temple which the archaeologists explored was used as a place of worship from
the fifteenth century B. C. until Roman times.
考古工作者考察的这座庙宇从公元前 15 世纪直到罗马时代一直是祭祀祈祷的
场所。
8. The body of one statue was found among remains dating from the
fifteenth century B. C.
其中有一尊雕像,她的躯体是在公元前 15 世纪的历史文物中发现的,
9. The development of such a telescope will be one of the great astronomical projects
of the twenty-first century.
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而开发这样一台望远镜将会是 21 世纪天文学的一个重要的研究课题。
10. The famous monastery of St. Bernard, which was founded in the eleventh century,
lies about a mile away.
11 世纪建造的著名的圣伯纳德修道院位于离山口 1 英里远的地方。
实例 2 组:
1. This battle, one of fiercest of the century, was fought between the armies of France
and Italy on the one side and Austria on the other.
这场战役是十九世纪最激烈的大战之一,交战国一方是法国和意大利的军队,
另一方是奥地利。
2. They had learned little since the time of Galen in the 2nd century A. D.
从公元 2 世纪加伦那个时代以来,他们在这方面的的学问长进不大。
3. The next important advance in understanding malaria came in the 17th century,
when many newly discovered plants in the New World were sent back to Europe to be
used as medicines.
在疟疾理解方面接下来的一个重要进展发生在 17 世纪,这时,很多在新世界
新发现的植物被送回到欧洲用作药材。
4. Three major health trends exist as we begin the new century.
在我们迈入新世纪之际,健康方面呈现出了三大趋势。
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5. The twentieth century began with powerful countries competing to take advantage
of the Earth.
从 20 世纪初起,各强国竞相利用地球资源。
6. The theme park itself will be only part of a giant complex of housing, office, and
resort developments stretching far into the next century, including movie and
television production facilities.
主题公园本身只不过是这一巨大综合项目的一部分。综合项目包括住房、办公
楼,以及将一直延续到下一世纪、包括影视拍摄设施在内的度假胜地开发。
7. An offshoot of the family settled down on the island in the eighteenth century.
这个家族的一支旁系于十八世纪在那个岛上定居下来。
8. Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century found
生活在 20 世纪 20 年代的观众认为,
9. A man without an education, many of us believe, is an unfortunate victim of
adverse circumstances, deprived of one of the greatest
twentieth-century opportunities.
我们许多人都相信,一个没有受过教育的人,是逆境的牺牲品,被剥夺了 20
世纪的最优越的机会之一。
10. As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made
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the remarkable discovery
早在 14 世纪,英国人约翰.霍克伍德就有过非凡的发现: