词汇 | century |
释义 | century noun [ C ] uk/ˈsen.tʃər.i/ us/ˈsen.tʃər.i/ A2 一百年 a period of 100 years The city centre has scarcely changed in over a century. 一百多年来市中心几乎没有变化。 This sculpture must be centuries old. 这座雕塑一定有好几百年历史了。 Her medical career spanned half a century. 她的从医生涯长达半个世纪。 Compare: millennium 世纪 a period of 100 years counted from what is believed to be the year of the birth of Jesus Christ Rome was founded in the eighth century BC (= before Christ). 罗马建于公元前8世纪。 He's an expert on 15th-century Italian art. 他是研究15世纪意大利艺术的专家。 (板球)100分 a score of 100 runs (= points) in cricket Both captains scored centuries. His third Test century came from only 135 balls. the turn of the century 世纪之交 the time when one century ends and another begins The museum reopened at the turn of the century. 这座博物馆在世纪之交重新开放。 By the turn of the century, Indian courts had a backlog of 25 million cases. We had to upgrade our computer systems to cope with the turn of the century. The town was founded at the turn of the century. The population of Asian elephants has more than halved since the turn of the century.
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