英语释义

1. a period of 100 years
a company that has been in business for more than a century specifically one of the 100-year divisions of the Christian era or of the preceding period of human history
the third century A.D./B.C the 18th century

2. a group, sequence, or series of 100 like things

3. a subdivision of the Roman legion
the third century A.D.

4. a voting unit of ancient Rome constituted according to property qualifications

5. a race over a hundred units (such as yards, miles, or meters)

6. a period of 100 years

7. a period of 100 years counted from the beginning of the Christian era

片语

the fifth century5世纪

20 centuries世纪

century hotel世纪酒店（电影名称，酒店名称）

Centuries Later几个世纪以后

two centuries两个世纪

Centuries BC公元前几百年

century park世纪公园

Ericsson Centuries立信百年

Rehabilitation Centuries自新世纪以来

quarter century四分之一世纪

19 centuries世纪

the twentieth century20世纪

Les Centuries百诗集

But Centuries但几个世纪以来

turn of the century世纪之交；19世纪与20世纪转换交替时期；19世纪末20世纪初

英汉例句

• how clever of those japanese craftsmen to figure it all out 14 centuries ago.

  那些日本工匠是何等聪明，他们在14世纪前就考虑到了这一切。

• lotteries have two centuries of history in spain.

  西班牙的彩票历史已有两个世纪。

• the third regime of the control revolution, seeded two centuries ago by the application of information to coal steam, is the control of information itself.

  控制革命的第三阶段，是对信息本身的控制。两个世纪之前，当把信息应用于燃煤蒸汽的时候，就播下了它的种子。

• 「but i am an optimist. if we cannot avoid disaster for the next two centuries our species should be safe as we spread into space,」 said him.

  霍金表示：「如果人类能在接下来的两个世纪内避开毁灭性的灾难，我们这个物种就能分散到太空中，得到安全保障。」

• although this has been enormously influential over the centuries at least over the last century and a half : you have to ask yourself: ? is this the reading that plato intended?

  虽然这在过去几个世纪,以来一直影响深远,至少在过去一个半世纪以来是如此,你们仍应自问：,这是柏拉图预期的解读吗？

• this is the height of british table manners five centuries before mrs beeton. and chaucer, of course, is laughing at this over-refinement.

  比顿夫人还没出现之前，英国五世纪餐桌礼仪的高度就是如此。当然，乔叟是在笑话这些礼仪过分精细。

• you can read commencement addresses from the 19th and early 20th centuries in which the speakers would talk about the beast within and the need for iron character to subdue it.

  读一读从19世纪到20世纪初期的学生毕业讲演辞，你就会发现，演讲人都提到了潜藏的兽性和征服它所需要的钢铁般的意志。

• what we are witnessing today is the consequence of over two centuries of industrial activity and high consumption lifestyles in the developed world.

  他说：「我们今天所看到的是过去两个世纪的工业活动和发达国家高消耗的生活方式的后果。

• two centuries ago, our forebears would have known the precise history and source of almost every one of the limited number of things they ate and owned.

  两个世纪以前，我们的祖先可能会已经知道了他们食用的和拥有的几乎所有有限的东西的历史和来源。

• but even in this 「concertinaed」 timeline - extending millions of centuries into the future, as well as into the past - this century is special.

  不过，即使在这张向未来、向过去延伸数百万世纪的“折叠式」时间表上，本世纪也是特别的一个世纪。

• china boasts the world's earliest observatory, built in nanking in 1385 in the ming dynasty (1368 a.d.-1644 a.d.), three centuries ahead of the greenwich observatory built in britain in 1670.

  中国建有世界上最早的气象台。公元1385年，明朝在南京建立观象台， 比英国格林尼治观象台（建于1670年）早三个世纪。