century是什么意思_音标_用法_例句

简单释义：

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

变形：

复数：centuries  

完整释义：

n.

1.百年,一世纪
2.百镑(钞票);〔美俚〕百元(钞票);百码赛跑
3.100码或100米游泳比赛
4.自行车百里赛
5.100米跑
6.100分
7.(古罗马)(军队的)百人队,(选举的)百人团
8.百,百个;【板球】百分

例句：

1. On the whole, this attitude toward one's old-world background has changed markedly, especially since the middle years of this century.
   总的来说，这种对待自己原先背景的态度已经发生了很大变化，尤其是从本世纪中叶起。

2. Indeed, until the eighteenth century one of the most striking characteristics of the British monarchy was its instability.
   事实上，直到十八世纪，英国君主政体最引人注目的特点之一就是复杂多变。

3. During the twentieth century there was an unusual shortening of the time of a woman's life spent in caring for children.
   在二十世纪有一个不寻常的时间缩短一个女人的生命用在照顾子女。

4. It would become a standard text in classrooms around the country, selling 60m copies over the course of the next century.
   这部字典在全国的课堂上成为标准教材，在随后的一个世纪里售出6000万册。

5. He was one of the greatest twentieth-century Americans in sports.
   他是20世纪最伟大的美国人在体育方面。

6. Not until the late 18th century did the British explorer James Cook cross the Antarctic Circle, but he never saw land.
   直到18世纪末，英国探险家詹姆斯·库克才穿越了南极圈，但他却从未发现任何陆地。

7. At all times, the Adaptive Server Anywhere internal storage of dates explicitly includes the century portion of a year value.
   在任何时候，AdaptiveServerAnywhere的内部日期存储都显式包括年份值的世纪部分。

8. But by the eve of the first world war Britain's income per head had been overtaken by that of America, the 20th century's great power.
   但是在第一次世界大战的前夕，英国的人均收入被美国超过，这个20世纪的超级大国。