century

century

美 [ˈsentʃəri] 　英 ['sentʃəri]

• n.世纪；百年；100 年；（一个运动员所得的） 100 分
• 网络世特力；世纪表；一世纪

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With a small number of exceptions, the early years of the 16th century are not particularly notable.

少数的例外，最初几年的16世纪是不是特别显着。

Isamu Noguchi was one of the few people who tried to combine sculpture with garden in the first half of the 20th century.

野口勇是20世纪上半叶少数几个尝试将雕塑与园林结合起来的学者之一。

They have been used to sterilize things since the 19th century, but steaming municipal waste in them is a new idea.

从19世纪起人们就用压力锅灭菌，但把生活垃圾装到压力锅里去蒸却是个全新的概念。

In many European countries workers bow out earlier and can look forward to drawing their pensions for up to a quarter of a century.

许多欧洲国家的工作者们提前退休，期待着运气好的话能拿到25年的退休金。

And back in the early 20th century, the pursuit of powered man flight was like the dot com of the day. Everybody was trying it.

20世纪初期，投入机动飞行器的热情就像当今的网站热，每个人都在做尝试。

The buffer may encompass expensive building materials whose earthquake flexibility is needed only for a minute or two every century.

缓冲层资源可能是昂贵的抗震建筑材料，其抗震挠性每个世纪只用得上一两分钟。

Of course, I only had about six years of it, and I confess I may not even have been aware that it was the 19th century.

当然，我只有6年的经历，而且坦白的说，当时我可能根本没有意识到那就是19世纪。

Always serving you absolutely with zeal, we look forward to coming and going together with you to create a new splendid century!

永远为您服务绝对的时候要有热情，要我们期待着来来往往与你携手共进、共创新的辉煌世纪！

Expressionism, as a label, can be applied to paintings from the early years of the century right up to the 1950s.

表现主义作为一种标签，适用于从本世纪初至五十年代的绘画。

After the Cleveland coverage, no sex scandal involving a politician of that stature would grace the front pages for a century.

关于克利夫兰的报道之后，有关政客的性丑闻，一个世纪都未达到为头版增色的高度。

measured by the share of GDP gobbled up by the taxman, tax burdens have come down in most countries since the turn of the 21st century.

按照被税务人员收走的GDP份额衡量，大多数国家在21世纪拐点以来的税收负担都下降了。

The year 2009 must be an extraordinary year since the beginning of this century, for there are many moments and events worth remembering.

2009年是21世纪初不平凡的一年，有许多值得我们记忆的时刻和事件。

Credit is looking forward to striving with you to make progresses and create splendid future in the new century!

在新的世纪里，佳川针纺期待着与您共同努力发展，创造辉煌的未来！

The economy began to grow at double-digit growth rates, a speed it has maintained now for a quarter of a century.

目前，中国已经将两位数的经济增长维持了25年。

Half a century after the sun set on empire, the British still struggle to see themselves as a European rather than global power.

英帝国日落半个世纪后，英国人仍将自己看作一个全球大国，而不是欧洲大国。

When I last saw her a quarter of a century ago, she was a scruffy, cerebral Oxford undergraduate.

我上一次见她，还是25年前。那时候，她是个不修边幅、思维理智的牛津大学学生。

NARRATOR: To many, the loans-for-shares deal was more than a scandal; it was the theft of the century.

旁白：对于许多人来说，贷款换股权交易更多的是一个丑闻，它是整个世纪最大的一次盗窃。

One of the major issues affecting nineteenth-century China was the question of how to deal with other countries.

的主要问题之一影响19世纪中国的问题是如何处理与其他国家。

At the beginning of the 19th century, Switzerland is one of the most highly industrialised countries in Europe.

19世纪初期，瑞士已经成为欧洲最为工业化的国家之一。

Remarkably, five of the last eight years make up the list of the five warmest years of the past century, says James Hansen, GISS director.

显着地，最后八年中的五组成五过去的世纪最温暖的数年目录，詹姆士汉森，GISS指导者说。

Classifications which appeared during the nineteenth century were therefore devised in a lively and dynamic environment.

十九世纪的分类是在一个充满活力，生气勃勃的气氛中创立的。

The tests before the United States as it heads toward the twenty-first century are certainly daunting.

美国迈向21世纪所面临的考验肯定是严峻异常。

Such were some of the causes for congratulation that our patriotic American might recognize, at the close of the eighteenth century.

这是我们的美国爱国志士在18世纪结束时可以感到欣慰的理由。

The earliest mention of explosives are to be found in the alchemical writings of the first half of the seventeenth century.

最早提及炸药的是十七世纪上半叶炼金术的著作。

During the sixteenth century the intellectual climate in many parts of Europe was slowly changing.

在16世纪，欧洲很多地方知识界的态度慢慢改变了。

With more than a century of data collected from these waters, they felt a kinship with the marine organisms of the Brittany coast.

由于在这片水域内收集资料达一个世纪之久，他们对布列塔尼地区的海洋生物有一种亲切感情。

In the twentieth century random association is believed to yield up the deepest secrets of the psyche.

在这二十世纪，胡乱任意的联想，却被认为可以提供藏于心灵深处的奥秘。

Agriculture in the twenty-first century will continue to be plagued by the vagaries of weather.

21世纪的农业将继续面临反复无常的气候灾害。

The 19th century would certainly not pass until Africa had revealed the secrets buried in her bosom for six thousand years.

六千年来人们没能够揭穿的非洲之迷，在十九世纪终于要被揭穿了。

The art of alchemy began in the Middle East and prospered in that part of the world and in Europe till the end of the seventeenth century.

炼金术始于中东，到17世纪末，便盛行于中东地区和欧洲。

Would you be surprised if I told you there was a recorded case in California over a century ago?

如果我告诉你一世纪以前在加利福尼亚有一宗有记录可查的案例的话，你会吃惊吗？

The coal consumption has declined since the early years of the twentieth century.

自20世纪的早些年起，煤的消耗就下降。

Expressionism, as a label, can be applied to paintings from the early years of the century right up to the 1950s.

表现主义作为一种标签，适用于从本世纪初至五十年代的绘画。

This style of architecture is usually referred to the sixteenth century.

这种风格的建筑一般是属于16世纪的。

The body of the general was reinterred at his native town in the earlier years of the 20th century.

这位将军的遗体20世纪初期移葬于他的家乡。

The subject of partial differential equations, which had its beginnings in the eighteenth century, burgeoned in the nineteenth.

诞生于十八世纪的偏微分方程这门学科，在十九世纪发展起来了。

There is, of course, no historical connection between the culture of Europe in the thirteenth century and that of present-day savages.

诚然，在13世纪的欧洲文化与现代野蛮人文化之间，绝不存在某种历史的关联。

In England judicial robes seem to have been green in the fourteenth century.

在英格兰，14世纪的法衣似乎是绿色的。

It also gave rise to problems in the foundations of mathematics with which the twentieth century is still struggling.

它引出关于数学基础的许多问题，这些问题在二十世纪仍然进行着争论。

The immigrants who had been coming across the Pacific from China since the mid-nineteenth century presented a new problem.

从19世纪中叶起，经太平洋从中国来的移民引起了新的问题。

He usually set out for work on foot each morning from his modest, one story, 19th century residence on Dzerzhinsky Street.

他总是每天早上从捷尔任斯基大街上他的简陋的十九世纪的平房走出，步行去上班。

The realities of the twentieth century which had shocked their fathers now wove the fabric of their own lives.

使他们父辈震动的二十世纪的现实，如今成了他们自己生活中的组成部分。

Such doubts, when coupled with the conviction that society was a sham, racked the great naturalist writers of the nineteenth century's end.

这样的怀疑，加上社会是虚伪的想法，使19世纪末伟大的自然主义作家们绞尽了脑汁。

Two events of the twentieth century catapulted polymers into a position of worldwide importance.

20世纪的两件大事一下使聚合物获得了世界性的主要地位。

For one thing, the first century and a half under British rule created emotional ties with the old country that were difficult to break.

举一件事来说，最初在英国统治下的一百五十年，产生了和故国在感情上的联系，那是难以割断了。

It is no accident that the twentieth century should be the century of highly centralized governments and totalitarian dictatorships.

20世纪应当是高度集权的政府的世纪，是极权主义专政的世纪，这决非偶然的事情。

He was an old fool to do a century in Florida in August.

只有傻瓜才在佛罗里达八月的大热天里参加自行车百里赛呢。

At the beginning of the century, the idea of traveling to the Moon was thought to be crazy.

本世纪初到月球旅行的想法却被认为是狂热的。

The use of magnets as aids to navigation can be traced back at least to the eleventh century.

磁铁用于航海，至少可追溯到11世纪。

During the fourteenth century a plague known as the "Black Death" swept over Europe.

在14世纪，一种称为“黑死病”的瘟疫漫延到整个欧洲。

"The bottom-up world is to be the great theme of this century, " declares Mr Ridley in the closing pages of this sunny book.

“这个倒置（bottom-up）的世界将成为本世纪的伟大主题”，里氏这部阳光普照的作品在结尾时如此宣告。

Mr Putin has said the collapse of the Soviet Union was the great geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.

普京曾说过，苏联解体是20世纪地缘政治的大灾难。

The great 18th-century painter Canaletto did not always sign or date his works but people bought his views of Venice regardless.

18世纪的伟大画家卡纳莱托不常在自己的作品上署名或写上日期，但人们还是不顾一切买了他的威尼斯风景画。

By the mid-19th century, it had pushed Britain out of the Pacific Northwest and consolidated its hegemony over the Western Hemisphere.

到十九世纪中叶，它已经将不列颠人驱赶出西北部太平洋，并巩固了自己在西半球的霸权。

He was one of the leading political figures of this century.

他是本世纪主要的政治人物之一。

The body of the general was reinterred at his native town in the earlier years of the 20th century.

这位将军的遗体20世纪初期移葬于他的家乡。

The concept of Social Acoustics appeared in the beginning of this century though the studies on it were started many years ago.

社会声学概念的明确提出是本世纪初的事情，尽管关于这方面的研究由来已久。

And in just a few days, a century-long struggle will culminate in a historic vote.

几天之后，在历史性的投票中，长达一个世纪的努力即将达到高潮。

China has been a state in some form for thousands of years, but Xinjiang formally became part of it only in the late nineteenth century.

中国作为一个国家以各种形式存在了数千年，然而新疆直到十九世纪末才正式划入其版图（校注：显然这一说法是错误的）。

"We may quite literally see turnout of a magnitude that we have not seen in a century of American politics, " he said.

他说：“我们基本上可以看到一次美国政治百年来没有过的投票热潮。”

Right now, it doesn't seem so ridiculous to ask whether 2008 will come to be seen as the first year of a distinctly non-American century.

但是现在，如果有人问2008年是否将被视为后美国世纪的元年，这似乎并不显得有多么地荒唐可笑。

Likewise, there was a time around the middle of the last century when the world was briefly convinced 3D was the future of cinema.

类似的事情还有3D电影。大约上世纪中叶的某个时候，全世界都认定3D电影将是电影院的未来。

It surpasses the performance of any current projected threat submarine, thus ensuring U. S. undersea dominance well into the next century.

它会对现在所有在役的外国潜艇造成威胁，拥有优势，从而保证美国在下一个世纪继续主导海底世界。

He said it was beyond debate that the climate has changed markedly over the last century.

毋庸置疑，在过去的一个世纪中，气候的确发生了显著的变化。

The twenty-first century is likely to be known as the 'Anti-Imperialist Century', marking a growing intolerance of the waning US empire.

二十一世纪很可能将以“反帝国主义者世纪”而载入史册，它将印记对衰落的美帝国的不断高涨的反抗。

Now, whenever I see a book concerning anything to do with the last half of 17th Century England, I feel nothing but a sense of repulsion.

现在，每当看到任何有关十七世纪英格兰的书，我都会很抵触，反正我对那段历史一向不大感兴趣。

And he added that the economic history of the nineteenth century was "an almost continuous record of the progress of socialism. "

他认为，19世纪的经济史其实就“几乎是社会主义不断进展的纪录史”。

spiritual paralysis , i say , nothing left but a mechanical life , was the characteristic of that century.

真是精神上的麻痹，容我不客气地说，过著机械般的生活，其他一无所有，这就是我们这世纪的特色。

But what the 19th century achieved on this basis was bound to arouse the admiration of every receptive person.

但是19世纪在此基础上获得的成就必然会让每个愿意接受原理的人惊叹。

We feel it a great honor to host this Forum at the turn of the century.

作为东道主，我们对世纪之交承办此次会议感到十分荣幸。

As early as the fifth century B. C, Parmenides of Elea declared that the earth was a sphere.

早在公元前五世纪，E·帕尔梅尼泽就宣布地球是球形体。

Mark Twain, the novelist of American boyhood, survived like a ghost from the nineteenth-century past until 1910.

美国早期小说家马克·吐温象一个幽灵一样，从十九世纪一直活到1910年。

The name has come down from the last century.

这名称是从上个世纪流传下来的。

The domination of the spiritual life by the church was attacked by Protestantism in the sixteenth century.

16世纪，教会对精神生活的支配地位受到了来自新教会方面的抨击。

Most of our attention will be devoted to the special features of economic life in 20th century industrial nations.

我们大部分注意力将放在二十世纪工业国家的经济生活的特征上。

Very early in the century experimenters using open-throat wind tunnels found their tunnels giving very pessimistic results.

在本世纪初期，实验工作者发现用开口风洞得出的结果偏于保守。

The middle-class woman of the late eighteenth century had good reason to accept and magnify these values of sensibility and passionate love.

十八世纪后期的中产阶级妇女完全有理由接受并赞美这些感情和炽热爱情价值。

The customary social classes and positions are broken apart by the force of twentieth-century demands.

传统的社会等级和社会地位为20世纪的需求力所粉碎。

Much of Central Asia was appropriated by the tsars only in the nineteenth century.

中亚细亚的大部分地区只是到了十九世纪才被沙皇所吞并。

He'd lost everything he'd saved in a quarter of a century.

他用了四分之一世纪积攒起来的家当全都完了。