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Century Period ˈsentʃəri Years Beginning 18th N Count 可数名词

A century is a period of 100 years used for stating dates. It can also refer to any period of 100 years, or a score of 100 or more in cricket.

世纪是一个用来表示日期的100年时期。, 一个世纪是任何100年的时期。, 在板球运动中,一个世纪是指一名击球手得分100分或更多。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]世纪 A century is a period of a hundred years that is used when stating a date. For example, the 19th century was the period from 1801 to 1900.
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  • ...celebrated figures of the late eighteenth century.

    18世纪晚期的名人

  • ...a 17th-century merchant's house.

    一幢17世纪商宅

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]一百年 A century is any period of a hundred years.
  • The drought there is the worst in a century.

    这是一百年来最严重的旱灾。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词](板球中一名击球手获得的)一百分,一百多分 In cricket, a century is a score of one hundred runs or more by one batsman.

    Oxford cen·tury / ˈsentʃəri ; NAmE ˈsentʃəri / noun ( plural cen·turies ) 1 a period of 100 years *100 年;百年 2 ( abbr.c , cent. ) any of the periods of 100 years before or after the birth of Christ 世纪 the 20th century (= AD 1901–2000 or 1900–1999) *20 世纪 eighteenth-century writers *18 世纪的作家 3 (in cricket 板球 ) a score of 100 runsby one player (一个运动员所得的) 100 分 IDIOMsee
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    cen·tury / ˈsentʃəri ; NAmE ˈsentʃəri /
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    centurycen‧tu‧ry /ˈsentʃəri/ ●●● S2 W1 noun (plural centuries) [countable]
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    1one of the 100-year periods measured from before or after the year of Christ’s birththe 11th/18th/21st etc century The church was built in the 13th century.the next/last century by the beginning of the next century the story of life on a small farm at the turn of the century (=the beginning of the century)2a period of 100 years:  many centuries ago3100 runs scored by one cricket player in an inningsCOLLOCATIONSadjectivesthe 18th/19th/20th/21st etc century· The movie is set in the 18th century.the early/mid/late 18th etc century· the industrial towns of the early 19th centurythe last/next century· The boats were built in the last century.the present century· The present century has seen the start of international terrorism.phrasesthe beginning of the century· Coco Chanel was born in France at the beginning of the century.the turn of the century (=the time when one century ends and another begins)· The town was expanding at the turn of the century.the end/close of the century· He was writing his books towards the end of the 19th century.the first/second half of the century· In the second half of the century, people's wages began to rise.18th-/19th- etc century art/music/literature· Nothing compares with Florence's beautiful 15th-century architecture.a16th-/19th- etc century house/church etc· They live in a 17th-century farmhouse.verbsdate from the 18th etc century (=it was started, built etc in the 18th etc century)· The present church dates from the 13th century.
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    世纪(95%),百年(4%),百年的(1%)
    n.世纪,百年;(板球)一百分

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