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centurion

/sen-toor-ee-uhn, -tyoor-/US // sɛnˈtʊər i ən, -ˈtyʊər- //UK // (sɛnˈtjʊərɪən) //

百夫长

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the commander of a century.
    • : Military. any one of various British battle tanks in service from 1945 to 1967.

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Examples

  • To treat the problem, the LAPD has “to change their warrior centurion culture,” she says, and try a radically different approach.

  • Centurion cost, in today's dollars, something like $12 million.

  • Neil Marshall's Centurion is by far his most serious movie, though that's not saying too much.

  • And on the witness stand in June, Mr. Whitaker painted Mrs. Astor as a saucy centurion at, or at least near, the top of her game.

  • Then, the performance over, I followed home some simple old centurion was it?

  • My master's farm—a veteran of the first war—a centurion—the Numidians.

  • At this moment the centurion who came to arrest him rushed in.

  • The centurion Rufilus, approaching the litter, gave explanations in a calm, official voice.

  • But his character was more than innocent; this, as the astonished centurion exclaimed, "Truly, this man was the Son of God!"

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