【century】 - A-level备考词汇

century

UK:  ['sentʃəri]

US:  ['sentʃəri]

复数：centuries  

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

1 . Clearly it will not be easy to create a new strategic system in Asia capable of managing the power-shifts of the Asian Century.
无疑，要创建一个能够处理“亚洲世纪”中权力交替的新的亚洲战略体系并不容易。

2 . However, the great socialist country suddenly broke down in the early 20th century, which had a great effect on others socialist countries.
然而，就是这样一个社会主义大国，竟然在20世纪后期轰然解体，给世界各社会主义国家造成了较大的影响。

3 . WE may certainly say of Gracian what Heine by an amiable fiction said of himself: he was one of the first men of his century.
我们可以坦然地引用海涅在他平易近人的小说中形容自己的话来形容葛拉西安：“他是本世纪第一男子。”

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 leaves with an unusually generous severance package and the right to sell at least two films a year to News Corp's Twentieth Century Fox.
他得到了格外慷慨的遣散费和一年至少两部电影卖给新闻集团旗下的二十世纪福克斯电影公司的权利。