音标:['sentʃuri] ; 柯林斯词典等级:5 级; 牛津三千核心词汇;
n. 世纪, 百年
n. a period of 100 years
词型变化:名词复数形式 : centuries
考试类型:[中考/高考/四级/六级/考研/IELTS]
词性分布:
名词100%

century的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. This book was written centuries ago.这本书是几百年前写的。
  2. Many centuries have passed since that time.从那时起,几百年过去了。
  3. He flourished in the early 18th century.他在18世纪早期享有盛名。
  4. The palace was built in the fifteenth century.这宫殿建于十五世纪。
  5. It was considered as the best novel of the century.这本书是那个世纪最好的一部小说。

常见句型

用作名词(n.)
  1. The century has brought us not only new things to see but new ways of seeing.本世纪以来我们不但有了许多新事物,而且有了看待问题的新方法。
  2. The woman artist's work takes its place among the most important paintings of this century.这位女画家的作品成为本世纪最重要的画作之一。
  3. Our history course didn't touch the 20th century.我们的历史课没有涉及20世纪。
  4. In this castle there are cannons from the 15th century.这个城堡里有15世纪的各种火炮。
  5. This book was first translated from French into English in the 15th century.这本书15世纪时首次由法文译成英文。
  6. Travel in the seventeenth century was often slow and dangerous.旅行在17世纪时既费时又危险。
  7. He'll give a talk on the main currents in the 19th century literature.他将要作的讲座是关于19世纪文学主要流派。
  8. The American West was hardly settled until the 15th century.美国西部直到15世纪才有人在那里定居。
  9. Modern music has broken away from the 18th century rules.现代音乐摆脱了18世纪的格式。
  10. These books were full of the scientific thought in the 19th century.这些书充满了19世纪的科学思想。
  11. The famous artist lived almost a century.这位画家活了差不多一百岁。
  12. The house has stood two hundred years and will stand another century.这房屋已历经二百年,而且还可以持续另一个世纪。
  13. Independence was achieved over the last century.独立已有一百多年了。
  14. Our trade with Africa will improve next century.下一世纪我们同非洲的贸易将进一步提高。
  15. As a writer in China, he should try to get the Nobel Prize in the next century.作为一个中国作家,他应该为以后的一百年中获得诺贝尔奖而努力。
  16. You are out of your century.你跟不上时代。
  17. He scored the most fantastic century I have ever witnessed.他获得100分是我所见过的最棒的。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)
动词+~
  • live out a century活过一个世纪,活过百岁
  • span a century跨世纪
形容词+~
  • brilliant century光辉的世纪
  • half a century半个世纪
  • last century上一个世纪
  • modern century当代,本世纪
  • next century下世纪
  • past -ries过去的几个世纪
  • present century本世纪
  • previous century前一个世纪
介词+~
  • from the...century to the...century从…世纪至…世纪
  • in the...century在…世纪
  • over〔through〕 the -ries经过若干世纪

经典引文

  • Centuries of armed men..firing from windows.

    出自:transf.
【近义词】

A Century of Memories (1910-1919) Roosevelt's design included linking the Pacific and Atlantic oceans by building a canal through the 1) Isthmus of Panama in northern Columbia, construction of the era

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2003年

A Century of Memories (1900-1909) On the eve of the new century, the sense of 1) boundless possibilities also 2) ignited an explosion of technological 3) innovations that would have 4) profound impact

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2003年

A Century of Memories (1920-1929) At the 1) dawn of the 1920's, America was clearly entering a new era, an era defined by a vast and complicated urban culture that would dominate the rest of the 20th

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(253) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2003年

A Century of Memories (1940-1949) On the first Sunday in December 1941, Americans were doing what Americans did on any normal Sunday.

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2003年

A Century of Memories (1930-1939) Three years into the depression, the American system was in grave danger. Unless it could change, and change quickly, it might not survive. The optimism of the “ 1)

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2003年

31.Keys to the 21st Century Young students wil be the main work force in the 21st Century.To be a qualified talent,they should acquire two important keys,which are English and the knowledge of computers respectively. In the new century,English will b

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(173) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语易背作文

Listen carefully to the conversations and short passages [00:07.99]and choose the best answer to each of the questions. [00:13.56]1.M: The main library is open from eight A. M. Until nine P.M. [00:20.51]Monday through Friday; noon until six P.M. Satu

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(189) / 评论(0) 分类 大学六级听力模拟题

While many Americans are familiar with black slavery in the South during the 19th Century and its role in igniting the nation's great Civil War, less attention has been paid to the black experience in northern cities such as New York, where so-called

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(二月)

THIS IS AMERICA - Late 20th-Century Jazz: New Beats for a Changed World By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Monday, August 15, 2005 (MUSIC) ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm F

发表于:2019-01-04 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 This is America

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 30 October 2007 The first half of the 20th century was a time of transformation in the United States. The country experienced two world wars, the Great Depression, and the rapid growth of cities. Mike O'Sullivan reports

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA常速英语(十月)

By Jim Bertel Washington, DC 24 March 2006 watch 100yearold Retiree report Arthur Winston is retiring after working at the same job for more than seven decades. Named

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(三月)

By VOA News 11 July 2006 Noguchi museum exhibit Visionary 20th century designer-inventor Buckminster Fuller and modernist sculptor Isamu Noguchi collaborated to bridge the gap between art and technology to create works that challenged the status quo

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(七月)

At this middle school in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, a sort of linguistic wrestling match takes place every afternoon. It pits about a dozen students ages 12 to 14 against the formidable language of Mandarin Chinese. Hey~Jia. Jia. The door is men. T

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(131) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年NPR美国国家公共电台

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 28 October 2009 Technology can bring lasting change to society, and one change it brought in the 19th century was the widespread use of color in art and commerce. A printing process known as lithography began in German

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十月)

Artists Celebrate Century of Music Royalties NEW YORK Every time you hear a song in a restaurant or on the radio, hear music in a concert hall, on TV or in a movie, or listen to streaming audio on the Internet, a writer gets paid, thanks in large par

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(二月)

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Confessions Of The Fox is a mystery story enrobed in a mystery. Dr. R. Voth is depressed and dedicated, a literary scholar recently discarded from a romance who has now, in his phrase, slipped off the map of the world. He slipped o

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

Personal Productivity in the 21st Century What does it mean to be productive? The gurus have given us a few ideas it means to get things done, to be highly effective, to know who it was, exactly, who moved your cheese. What things, effective at what,

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Beautiful handwriting was very important in the 18th century. People took pride in the look of letters and invitations. Pens were made from the tip, or quill, of the feather from a swan or turkey. Good writing paper was made from sheepskin. Letters w

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 名人认知系列 Who Was

Mid-19th-century French landscape paintings debut in China Some 40 valuable paintings from the mid-19th-century French Barbizon painters are currently on display at the China Millennium Monument. The exhibition is expected to give a clear insight int

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 2017CRI中国国际广播电台

威尔史密斯女儿Willow新单:21st Century Girl 威尔史密斯的小女儿Willow Smith第二只单曲21st Century Girl又惊艳登场啦!小女娃儿这回在辫子上做足了功夫,各种辫子造型,太有范儿了!头上绑着小气球

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(130) / 评论(0) 分类 经典英文歌曲
学英语单词
6-O-Methylerythromycin
age sex composition
All-souls'-day
almost-certain
aluminium conductor aluminium clad steel reinforced
aphyllous plant
astatic electro dynamometer
bark picture
bloody shame
breeder cockerel
bung fodder
cable ferry
cantacuzinoes
cayugas
cerebral diataxia
Ceylon cinnamon tree
chhertums
chicadees
chip-breaking flute
cholopleth map
closed high
coextend
crane fall
Darwinian
DBMC
DC arc welding
dealings in foreign notes and coins
distorted polyhedra
electrical degree
end breakage rate
endo-dextranase
exhaust column
f.thomas
financial indicator
flexible tube pump
folk dancers
Forkville
freedom of conscience
fundamental diagram
green leech
grill car
grow like a weed
grunberg
high resolution spectrometer
high-wrought
hit your stride
hold on
immediate address mode
impetiginous syphilid
in bad shape
insurrectionary officer
intrazone
kicking horse p.
lead(ii) iodate
ligamenta hyothyreoideum medium
logging machinery
Louys, Pierre
monosalient pole
mumismatics
myeloid metaplasia
nuzzling
Oboke-kyo
oligomenorrhea
osmotic pressures
over-commonly
Parsons table
participant as observer
Pesek, Sungai
pharyngospasmus
plot of land
polybutilate
post-neonatal mortality rate
posty
power-unit failure speed
purnell process
rachitic flat pelvis
rein in a horse
roller bandages
rotary actuator with two pistons
roughs
scarifying rotor
sculpture teeth
sexually attractive
shihab
simultaneous print-plot
spud can base
st-laurent
standing gage block
stream of bits
sun porch
super powder
telemetry acquisition
tensile shear test
text someone
thermomicroscopy
timing program
unpaid expense
warrant of arrest
washtenaw
wave of oscillation
yenikapi
zone transfer