centuries

centuries

美 [ˈsentʃəri] 　英 ['sentʃəri]

• n.百年；百个；【板】百分；(古罗马)(军队的)百人队
• 网络世纪；诸世纪；千秋

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Licorice has been used for centuries as an expectorant to loosen phlegm.

甘草用于化痰已有几个世纪了。

Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago.

人们只是在两个世纪前一点才开始了解电的使用原理，

I came across a few centuries you, only you to see only the face appeared in the dream.

我穿越了几个世记来找你，只为了见你那只在梦境出现的容颜。

If ever a work of art had a right to feel over exposed, it is Michelangelo's David, naked in the heart of Florence for nearly 5 centuries.

如果说有哪件艺术品给曝光过度，那就是在佛罗伦萨市中心赤身露体了近五个世纪的米开朗基罗的大卫。

Most are not even aware that raw milk has been used throughout the past centuries as a means of combating various illnesses.

大多数人甚至不知道在过去的数百年里，生牛奶一直被人们用来治疗疾病。

With names enduring for centuries it is possible that the sign above the door is as old as the pleasure of drinking itself.

既然酒吧的名字能够流传数百年，那么酒吧门上方挂着的招牌大概也与喝酒本身的乐趣一样，历史悠久，源远流长。

When Euclid originally laid down the axioms of his geometric system 23 centuries ago, one of them seemed less than obvious.

2300年前，当欧几里得（Euclidian）最初提出构成他几何体系的那些公理时，其中一个公理似乎一点也不显眼。

We have watched for centuries as the Light of change grew stronger and stronger, until now the dark ones are in retreat!

我们已经观察地球上的圣光变得越来越强大数个世纪了，直到现在黑暗势力开始败退！

For centuries the dark berries of European black elder (Sambucus nigra L. ) have been traditionally used as a winter remedy.

几个世纪以来，来自于欧洲的黑接骨木果实是被做为冬季的传统治疗方法。

We were surprised to see that it was being built entirely from solid pieces of rock and marble, like buildings of previous centuries.

我们惊讶地发现，这是个完全由结实的岩石和大理石建造的清真寺，象是在几世纪以前的建筑。

There is no doubt, however, that the Mayas must have been familiar with cocoa several centuries earlier.

毫无疑问，玛雅人已在几个世纪前就对可可有所认识了。

What is remarkable about the history of toys is not so much how they changed over the centuries but how much they have remained the same.

在玩具的发展史中，值得记录的并不是他们变了什么而是在这么多世纪之后他们仍保留了某些特性。

People will continue to wrangle over relations between the state and religion in the Arab world, just as they did for centuries in Europe.

正如几个世纪以来的欧洲人一样，人们将会继续就阿拉伯世界中有关政权和宗教之间的关系争论不休。

These dogs have been used for centuries as a do-all farm dog.

这些狗已使用数百年来作为一个做所有农场的狗。

In terms of development, China is at least decades, if not centuries, behind the United States.

就发展程度而言，中国落后美国即使没有数百年，也至少有数十年。

No kind of animal would have survived through the centuries if the weak members had lived. And has always been a law of nature.

没有哪种物种能存活数百年，如果是它们中弱小的成员活下来的话。而这已经成为了自然的法则。

The graph below the images tracks the surface elevation of Devils Lake from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries.

图像下面的图表记录了魔鬼湖在19世纪末到21世纪初的水面高度的变化轨迹。

In the years to come, Yoda would study these techniques, learning the ability in a role he had not played in centuries: an apprentice.

在随后的数年里，尤达学习着这项技能，这一次，他成了一个学生，他已经有好几百年没有当过学徒了。

The artist took a scene that had dominated art for centuries and gave it a completely new perspective.

廷托雷托画了几个世纪以来的占主导艺术的一个场景，完全是一种新的视角。

This act marked the end of four centuries of Ottoman -Turk rule and the beginning of thirty years of British rule.

这个行动标致着四个世纪以来奥斯曼土耳其的统治结束，三十年的英国统治开始。

Some insight into the body of knowledge that has been acquired over the centuries should be conveyed by a survey of physics.

要对几世纪以来所获得的知识的实质有所领会，就必须对物理进行一番巡礼。

At the very beginning of the literary period (about 800)the y became so weak that no trace of it appeared in writing for three centuries.

在文学语言初期，大约是公元800年左右，这个y已逐渐弱化，以致在以后三个世纪，在文字上都没有保存它的任何迹象。

When I aroused, it was as after centuries of time.

待我苏醒过来，好似已经过了几个世纪。

The chestnut has been an important food for man in Asia, Asia Minor, Europe, and North America for centuries.

多少世纪以来，栗子一直是亚洲、小亚细亚、欧洲和北美人的重要食粮。

If Napoleon had lived 20 centuries ealier, he would doubtless have been apotheosized.

如果拿破仑早生2000年，他无疑会被奉为神明。

Poliomyelitis is a disease known to the civilized world for many centuries.

脊髓灰质炎已是文明世界许多世纪所知的疾病。

A long line of disillusive centuries has permanently displaced the Hellenic idea of life.

多少世纪以来破除迷妄的结果，把那种希腊人生观给永久扫荡了。

Millions of peasants still till the land much as they have for centuries.

千百万农民仍然和几百年来一样地耕作。

Canon law was in decline in the tenth and early eleventh centuries.

寺院法在10世纪和11世纪初走向衰落。

The art has passed down for centuries.

这门手艺已经传下来好几百年了。

What a pity you won't be around five centuries.

可惜你活不到五百岁。

She will indeed continue to heat up with many more eruptions of what you know as volcanoes in the centuries ahead.

事实上她将继续升温，在前方数个世纪带来更多你们所知的火山爆发。

Forging welding was the first form of welding and for many centuries the only one in general use.

锻焊焊接是第一种和一般只使用一个多世纪。

Within a matter of centuries, human intelligence will have re-engineered and saturated all the matter in the universe.

在几个世纪的时间内，人类智慧将会被重组，它将参透宇宙万物。

Because for centuries, glamour had a very particular meaning, and the word was actually used differently from the way we think of it.

因为时代变迁，魅力会相应的有着其特定的含义，而且这个词汇实际上和我们设想的方式是截然不同的。

The Vatican is divided into departments that rarely communicate with one another, out of a centuries-old culture of secrecy and autonomy.

教廷由不同的部门组成，几个世纪以来，保密、自主的文化传统使得部门之间鲜有交流。

It is an herb native to Paraguay that has been used for centuries as a sweetener.

它是巴拉圭的一种本地药草，作为甜味剂已经使用几百年。

Echinacea has been used for centuries to help support strong immune systems.

紫锥花几个世纪以来一直用于支持强有力的免疫系统。

If everybody in London, New York, and Moscow were exterminated, the world might, in the course of a few centuries, recover from the blow.

如果仅仅是伦敦、纽约和莫斯科的人被杀害，这个世界在几个世纪之后，会慢慢从此种打击中恢复。

After all, a decrease in solar output known as the Maunder Minimum helped freeze Europe for a few centuries.

毕竟，被称之为蒙德极小期（MaunderMinimum）的太阳活动减少导致了欧洲几个世纪的低温气候。

The early scientific study of chemistry, known as alchemy, grew up in the first few centuries A. D. at Alexandria in Egypt.

早期有关化学的科学性研究叫作炼金术，它在纪元后的最初几个世纪中在埃及的亚历山大得到发展。

Barges have been a favorite means of transporting goods on Ducth rivers and canals for centuries.

驳船现已成为国家一种非常重要的水上运输工具。

Over the centuries, smallpox has been one of mankind's most feared and deadly diseases with a history dating back at least 3500 years.

数个世纪以来，天花对于人类来说是一种最可怕的致命性疾病，其历史可追朔到3500年前。

The Athens of Socrates and Plato, in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, is often seen as home to a first golden age of conversation.

公元前5世界到4世界之间，苏格拉底和柏拉图时代的雅典，经常被看作是交谈的首个黄金时代。这种观点的产生，主要是因为柏拉图的作品。

The fork was an ancient agricultural tool, but for centuries no one thought of eating with it.

叉子本是一种古老的农具，几个世纪以来，从没有人想到用它来吃东西。

For centuries there were differences of opinion among the specialists as to which stones deserved to be called sapphires.

然而哪个宝石可被称为蓝宝石，这个问题数百年来已被专家们激烈讨论。

During the six centuries which had gone by since the death of the Prophet the original ardor of his followers had considerably cooled.

六百年来随着先知和他最初的仰慕者逝去，一切已经相当程度上冷却了。

There is nothing necessarily wrong with that: it's a system that has worked well for centuries and if you are happy with it, then fine.

这本来无可厚非：这种男女有别的制度安排几百年来一直并行不悖，你若觉得并无不妥之处，则一切OK。

"Here, maybe this will help, " he says, and he pulls a little picture out of his wallet. An old portrait, really old, like centuries old.

“哦，也许这个会对你有所帮助，”他一边说一边从皮夹子里掏出一张小照片，一张很旧的人物照，仿佛好几个世纪以前照的。

The last ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a termination.

过去十个世纪都在为它劳动而未能结束，如同未能完成巴黎的建筑一样。

"My own feeling, though, is that this gold was probably taken out centuries ago, " he said.

“但我自己的感觉是黄金可能几个世纪前就被取走了，”他说道。