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单词 century
释义
century
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsen.tʃər.i/
us
/ˈsen.tʃər.i/
A2
aperiodof 100years
一百年
Thecitycentrehasscarcelychangedin over a century.一百多年来市中心几乎没有变化。
Thissculpturemust be centuriesold.这座雕塑一定有好几百年历史了。
Hermedicalcareerspannedhalfa century.她的从医生涯长达半个世纪。
Compare
millennium
aperiodof 100yearscountedfrom what isbelievedto be theyearof thebirthofJesusChrist
世纪
Rome wasfoundedin the eighth century BC(= beforeChrist).罗马建于公元前8世纪。
He's anexperton 15th-centuryItalianart.他是研究15世纪意大利艺术的专家。
ascoreof 100runsincricket
(板球)100分
the turn of the century
thetimewhen one centuryendsand anotherbegins
世纪之交
Themuseumreopenedat theturnof the century.这座博物馆在世纪之交重新开放。
More examples
  • Life in the 19th century was very different from what it is now.
  • Peru wascolonizedby theSpanishin the 16th century.
  • She wasprobablythe mosthighlyeducatedprimeministerof this century.
  • For centuries, Native AmericanstradedwithEuropeansettlers.
  • For more thanhalfa century, thereassuringtonesof BBCnewscastershaveinformedBritishtelevisionviewersaboutworldevents.

Examplesofcentury

century
Up until the twentiethcentury, regulations regarding marital fitness tended to follow the common-law rules on the capacity of parties to contract.
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No further gains were achieved in the last decade of thecentury, during which the third- and fourth-generation cultivars replaced the original introduced cultivars.
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By the end of thecentury, however, a few women had managed to break the ranks of male professionalism and attain medical degrees.
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Ultimately the genre survives in the twenty-firstcenturyprimarily in our university choruses and local choral societies.
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The name has survived the demise of the political power with which it was originally identified by almost three centuries.
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Just how much autonomy cells possess was a matter of serious debate in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentiethcentury.
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Indigenous political resistance teaches us how to rethink politics for the twenty-firstcentury, and social anthropology has a role to play in this project.
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Creating culturally relevant ways of thinking about diversity and aging : theoretical challenges for the twenty-firstcentury.
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As a result, our ability to make sense of women's lives and experiences in the late 20thcenturysuffered from a lack of historical perspective.
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Most were very specialized, and have suffered for it in the late twentiethcenturycompared to the rest.
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In the twentiethcenturylandscape no longer offers this compensation or conciliation.
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It is easy to feel the power of this scheme at the latter end of the twentiethcenturyin a disintegrating society.
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The chief obstacle to such a law in the first part of the twentiethcenturywas opposition from settlers and farmers.
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Conventionalism has had a tremendous impact on science and philosophy throughout the twentiethcentury.
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It is not, however, the experimentalist impulse of a radicalized pragmatism that stands to blame for the atrocities and absurdities of the twentiethcentury.
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Collocationswithcentury

century

These are words often used in combination withcentury.

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century of neglect
Those of us who may feel frustration at so little progress after acenturyofneglect, in no sense direct that frustration at him.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
coming century
The book is well worth reading, providing as it does plenty of ideas for new lines of research in thecomingcentury.
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ensuing centuries
The building changed hands several times over the ensuing centuries.
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