This century wrought major changes in our society.(本世紀給我們的社會帶來了重大變革。)

Richard told me of three 16th-century folio volumes on alchemy.(理查德告訴過我16世紀的關于煉金術的三卷對開本書籍的事。)

The doorway is a 19th century reconstruction of Norman work.(門廊是19世紀時模仿諾曼式建筑修建的。)

Globalization is a phenomenon of the 21st century.(全球化是21世紀的現象。)

They can trace their lineage back to the 18th century.(他們的家族可以直接追溯到18世紀。)

She looked like a princess in a nineteenth-century illustration.(她看上去像19世紀插圖里的公主。)

The brooch dates back to the fourth century BC.(胸針可追溯至公元前4世紀。)

He is writing a historical novel about nineteenth-century France.(他正在寫一部關于19世紀的法國的歷史小說。)

A new century was dawning.(一個新的世紀開始了。)

The name has come down from the last century.(這名稱是從上個世紀流傳下來的。)

Schedule-(學習進度)

A：What’s your schedule like this year?
你今年的課程表進度怎么樣？

B：Pretty busy. I have to pick up a lot of credits this year.
很緊。我今年要修很多學分。

A：What’s your major?
你學什么專業？

B：I’m majoring in French literature.
法國文學。

century的近義詞

A：Oh, don’t you have to take that class on 18th century poetry? It’s really difficult. I hear the students in that class have to write a paper 100 pages long.
哦，你們不需要上關于18世紀的詩歌這門課嗎？真的很難，我聽說修這門課的學生要寫100頁的論文。

B：That’s right. We got the assignment last week.
對呀，這是我們上個星期布置的作業。

A：When is it due?
什么時候交？

B：Next Monday!
下星期一。

A：Remind me never to sign up for that course!
提醒我決不要選那門課。

用作名詞(n.)

The century has brought us not only new things to see but new ways of seeing.
本世紀以來我們不但有了許多新事物,而且有了看待問題的新方法。The woman artist's work takes its place among the most important paintings of this century.
這位女畫家的作品成為本世紀最重要的畫作之一。Our history course didn't touch the 20th century.
我們的歷史課沒有涉及20世紀。In this castle there are cannons from the 15th century.
這個城堡里有15世紀的各種火炮。This book was first translated from French into English in the 15th century.
這本書15世紀時首次由法文譯成英文。Travel in the seventeenth century was often slow and dangerous.
旅行在17世紀時既費時又危險。He'll give a talk on the main currents in the 19th century literature.
他將要作的講座是關于19世紀文學主要流派。The American West was hardly settled until the 15th century.
美國西部直到15世紀才有人在那里定居。Modern music has broken away from the 18th century rules.
現代音樂擺脫了18世紀的格式。These books were full of the scientific thought in the 19th century.
這些書充滿了19世紀的科學思想。The famous artist lived almost a century.
這位畫家活了差不多一百歲。The house has stood two hundred years and will stand another century.
這房屋已歷經二百年,而且還可以持續另一個世紀。Independence was achieved over the last century.
獨立已有一百多年了。Our trade with Africa will improve next century.
下一世紀我們同非洲的貿易將進一步提高。As a writer in China, he should try to get the Nobel Prize in the next century.
作為一個中國作家,他應該為以后的一百年中獲得諾貝爾獎而努力。You are out of your century.
你跟不上時代。He scored the most fantastic century I have ever witnessed.
他獲得100分是我所見過的最棒的。

用作名詞 (n.)

動詞+～

live out a century活過一個世紀,活過百歲span a century跨世紀

形容詞+～

brilliant century光輝的世紀half a century半個世紀last century上一個世紀modern century當代,本世紀next century下世紀past -ries過去的幾個世紀present century本世紀previous century前一個世紀

介詞+～

from the...century to the...century從…世紀至…世紀in the...century在…世紀over〔through〕 the -ries經過若干世紀

Centuries of armed men..firing from windows.