century

英[ˈsentʃəri]美[ˈsentʃəri]

n.世纪，一百年；

复数：centuries;

例句

The castle dates back to the 14th century.该城堡建于14世纪。

This huge triumphal arch was erected at the beginning of this century.这座巨大的凯旋门是本世纪初建造的。

More and more people are inclined towards the Liberal Party as they become disenchanted with the two main parties that have governed the country for half a century.人们对统治这个国家达半个世纪之久的两大**不再抱有幻想，愈来愈多的人倾向于自由*。

These clubs began as coffeehouses in the seventeenth century.这些夜总会在17世纪时原来是咖啡馆。

The hotel has the splendour of a nineteenth-century mansion.这家旅馆具有19 世纪豪宅的华丽风格。

We’re studying dramatic texts by sixteenth century playwrights.我们正在研究16 世纪戏剧作家的戏剧文本。

Modern music has broken away from 18th century rules.现代音乐摆脱了18世纪的规则。

As a writer, he really belongs to the 18th century.作为一个作家, 他的确属于18世纪。

The paintings of Paul Cezanne prefigured the rise of cubism in the early 20th century.保罗·塞尚的绘画预示了20世纪初叶立体主义的兴起。

various events that happened posterior to the 19th century19世纪以后发生的种种事件

英语六级真题

Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections.

Europe hardly had any museums before the 19th century.

Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination ( ' , 终极) of their classical education.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modem family tells the story of a century of social change.

Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕 鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

Even during the turbulent years of last century, youth rebellion was often exaggerated in the media.

Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.

More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining.

When the molten rock of the earth’s core forced its way to the surface to form the throat of a volcano, as the centuries passed, the rock cooled and hardened, shrinkingand cracking into long columns.

A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise.

Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly.

This means, of course, that almost all of the books published in the 20th century are still under copyright – and the last century saw more books published than in all previous centuries combined.

In the early 20th century Americans believed science and technology could solve virtually all existing problems.

The table dates from the 18th century and is made from Spanish oak.

A chronicle professor, Henry Louis Gates, recently studied are search project looking into 19th century African-American fiction and poetry

This exploitation has reached such extremes that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be extinguished before the end of the century.

It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished, guided, healed-the planet, however, which we have abused to a considerable degree in these past two centuries of industrial exploitation.

Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice,Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination (终极) of their classical education.

But a century later, her findings came under scientific criticism.

By the late 19th Century, kola nuts were being shipped by the tonne to Europe and the US.

Dating from as far back as the 12th century, they are claimed to be the rarest historic buildings in western Europe.

In the last few decades of the 20th century, living standards went up and economic depressions were largely averted in the US.

In the mid-19th century, the US government adopted a policy of Americanising Indian children by removing them from their homes and culture.

It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.

Maria Sibylla Merian, like many European women of the 17th century, stayed busy managing a household and rearing children.

More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining

right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

rising temperatures and overfishing in the pristine waters around the Antarctic could see king penguin populations pushed to the brink of extinction by the end of the century, according to a new study.

She was going to talk with slides about a town in the 18th century.

since the middle of the 20th century, though, things have turned the opposite way—these days, punishing hours at your desk, rather than days off, are seen as the mark of someone important.

since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco- Roman and Italian

The earliest printed book we know today appeared in China in the year 868, and metal type was in use in Korea at the beginning of the 1'th century, but it was in Germany around the year 1450 that a printing press using movable metal type was invented.

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modern family tells the story of a century of social change.

within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

世纪

A century is a period of a hundred years that is used when stating a date. For example, the 19th century was the period from 1801 to 1900.

例句

N-COUNT

一百年

A century is any period of a hundred years.

例句

N-COUNT

(板球中一名击球手获得的)一百分，一百多分

In cricket, a century is a score of one hundred runs or more by one batsman.

英汉词典释义

n.

100年, 一世纪

100分

英英词典释义

Noun

1. 100 years

2. ten 10s

行业词典

体育： 百米赛跑；百米游泳赛；

金融： 百元；