century
世纪,个世纪,百年,世紀
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plural cen·tu·ries.
- : a period of 100 years.
- : one of the successive periods of 100 years reckoned forward or backward from a recognized chronological epoch, especially from the assumed date of the birth of Jesus.
- : any group or collection of 100: a century of limericks.
- : a company, consisting of approximately 100 men.
- : one of the voting divisions of the ancient Roman people, each division having one vote.
- : Printing. a style of type.
- : Slang. a hundred-dollar bill; 100 dollars.
- : Sports. a race of 100 yards or meters, as in track or swimming, or of 100 miles, as in bicycle racing.
- : Cricket. a score of at least 100 runs made by one batsman in a single inning.
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Today’s two major parties have framed political competition since the middle of the 19th century — since the Republicans rose from the rubble of the Whigs.
Maybe in another century I would have been a witch and burned at the stake.
Later in the century mathematicians proved two other key facts that tied together scissors congruence and tiling.
More than 125 countries, representing more than two-thirds of global emissions, have either adopted or are discussing a goal of reaching net zero emissions by the middle of the century, Höhne said.
In China, as early as the 15th century, healthy people deliberately breathed smallpox scabs through their noses and contracted a milder version of the disease.
For more than a century, Americans have been fretting about these sorts of ghosts.
In the 21st century women are earning their equality every step of the way… including the bedroom.
Finally free of Japanese interference, Korea elected its first autonomous government in almost half a century.
Warm milk mixed with a spoonful of fireplace ashes seemed to also be popular among 19th century England.
The goal is to create a literary anatomy of the last century—or, to be precise, from 1900 to 2014.
El Imparcial maintained that he was worthy of being honoured as a 19th century conquering hero.
It is a lofty and richly-decorated pile of the fourteenth century; and tells of the labours and the wealth of a foreign land.
We live in an age that is at best about a century and a half old—the age of machinery and power.
John of Damascus, an important Greek theologian of the eighth century, often cited by Thomas.
During the last century these were recast, and addition made to the peal, which now consists of twelve.