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单词 twenty-first
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twenty-first
ordinal number
uk
/ˌtwen.tiˈfɜːst/us
/ˌtwen.t̬iˈfɝːst/
21st written as a word:
第21，第二十一
the twenty-firstcentury二十一世纪
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twenty-first
noun[C]
UK
uk
/ˌtwen.tiˈfɜːst/us
/ˌtwen.t̬iˈfɝːst/
(alsotwenty-first birthday)
thedayon which apersonreachestheageof 21 and istraditionallysaid, inWesternsocieties, tobecomeanadult:
21岁生日（西方的成人年龄）
It's Jamie's twenty-first nextFriday.下周五是杰米的21岁生日。
Herdadgave her acarfor her twenty-first.她21岁生日时她父亲送了一辆车给她。
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(Definition oftwenty-firstfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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Ultimately the genre survives in thetwenty-firstcentury primarily in our university choruses and local choral societies.
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Creating culturally relevant ways of thinking about diversity and aging : theoretical challenges for thetwenty-firstcentury.
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How persons in these uncharted waters proceed to look upon themselves is one of the important questions for thetwenty-firstcentury.
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It was not until the start of thetwenty-firstcentury that electronic music reasserted itself as something outside of the pre-existing rules of functionality.
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In fact, music may now be a problematic term for sometwenty-first-century sound artists.
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Each section ends with a chapter ontwenty-firstcentury issues, but these chapters are very uneven.
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Such is the state we find ourselves in with computers as sound machines at the beginning of thetwenty-firstcentury.
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In thetwenty-firstcentury perhaps the main driver of change will be economic rationalism.
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In thetwenty-firstcentury, the study of popular music can no longer be excluded from medieval music study.
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Thetwenty-firstcentur y, we are told, is going to be a centur y of cities.
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To list the collections of twentieth- andtwenty-first-century slang is impossible.
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This is laudable but is not, in itself, enough to build or sustain a progressive coalition for thetwenty-firstcentury.
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If the above overview of military history in thetwenty-firstcentury has helped to remove this misperception, then it has accomplished its primary objective.
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Yet, almost paradoxically, four years into thetwenty-firstcentury, this book could hardly be timelier.
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This is as it should be, initiating for the field new parameters for thetwenty-firstcentury.
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