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century

英 ['sentʃʊrɪ] 美['sɛntʃəri]

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n. 世纪，百年；（板球）一百分

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Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered eggs that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.

For centuries, Ukrainians have been drawing complicated patterns on eggs.

The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.

In the 20th century the main threat to international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.

During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times.

Two and a half centuries on, most countries impose some sort of tax on alcohol and tobacco.

The idea of gamification was practiced by some businesses more than a century ago.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

A 16th century castle in Scotland is close to collapsing after lumps of soil were washed away by floods, threatening its foundations.

In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.

It’s been in business nearly a century.

In fact, they’ve been in use for centuries.25 centuries ago, kites were well-known in China.

By the 15th century, many people flew kites in Europe.

But while printing quickly caused the hand written book to die out, handwriting lingered on (继续存在) well into the 16th century.

The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world's ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century

Central heating was present in every upper-and middle-class home by the second half of the 19th century.

Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of its symbolic power.

The increase of e-book sales will force the book business to make changes not seen for centuries.

Half a century later GM is a typical example of poor management.

sustainable way is the cornerstone (基石) of our nation's energy security, and will be one of the major challengesof the 21st century.

As he traveled through the homes of early 19th century nobility, Careme forged the new art of French gourmet food.

Between meals, Careme wrote cook books that would be used in European kitchens for the next century.

By the 18th century, there was a feeling of community that had grown.

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was known to be unimpressed by the declining taste of early 18th century cooking, but under pressure to entertain Paris' high society, he too called Careme to his kitchen at Tuileries Palace.

He wanted to "set the standard for beauty in classical and mode cooling, and prove to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world", as he wrote in his papers.

It's been in business nearly a century.

Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered "eggs" that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.

Overwhelmingly, the results show that today, the idea of the American dream—and what it takes to achieve it—looks quite different than it did in the late 20th century.

People have grown taller over the last century, with South Korean women shooting up by more than 20cm on average, and Iranian men gaining 16.5cm.

The 18th century really was a waterborne (水运的) century, the 19th century a rail century.

the 20th century a highway, car, truck century—and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviation century, as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air, " Kasarda says.

The Vikings' first major discovery occurred in the 9th century.

They gathered together temperature readings collected by everything from a 19th century voyage of British naval ships to modern automated ocean probes.

This was first mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century.

While height increased in Uganda and niger during the early 20th century, the trend has reversed in recent years, with height decreasing among l8-year-olds.

Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections.

Europe hardly had any museums before the 19th century.

Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination ( ' , 终极) of their classical education.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modem family tells the story of a century of social change.

Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

Even during the turbulent years of last century, youth rebellion was often exaggerated in the media.

Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.

More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining.

When the molten rock of the earth’s core forced its way to the surface to form the throat of a volcano, as the centuries passed, the rock cooled and hardened, shrinkingand cracking into long columns.

A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise.

Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly.

This means, of course, that almost all of the books published in the 20th century are still under copyright – and the last century saw more books published than in all previous centuries combined.

In the early 20th century Americans believed science and technology could solve virtually all existing problems.

The table dates from the 18th century and is made from Spanish oak.

A chronicle professor, Henry Louis Gates, recently studied are search project looking into 19th century African-American fiction and poetry

This exploitation has reached such extremes that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be extinguished before the end of the century.

It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished, guided, healed-the planet, however, which we have abused to a considerable degree in these past two centuries of industrial exploitation.

Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice,Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination (终极) of their classical education.

But a century later, her findings came under scientific criticism.

By the late 19th Century, kola nuts were being shipped by the tonne to Europe and the US.

Dating from as far back as the 12th century, they are claimed to be the rarest historic buildings in western Europe.

In the last few decades of the 20th century, living standards went up and economic depressions were largely averted in the US.

In the mid-19th century, the US government adopted a policy of Americanising Indian children by removing them from their homes and culture.

It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.

Maria Sibylla Merian, like many European women of the 17th century, stayed busy managing a household and rearing children.

More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining

right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

rising temperatures and overfishing in the pristine waters around the Antarctic could see king penguin populations pushed to the brink of extinction by the end of the century, according to a new study.

She was going to talk with slides about a town in the 18th century.

since the middle of the 20th century, though, things have turned the opposite way—these days, punishing hours at your desk, rather than days off, are seen as the mark of someone important.

since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco- Roman and Italian

The earliest printed book we know today appeared in China in the year 868, and metal type was in use in Korea at the beginning of the 1'th century, but it was in Germany around the year 1450 that a printing press using movable metal type was invented.

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modern family tells the story of a century of social change.

within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

A century ago, the resource in question was oil.

According to Hume, some works of art can exist for centuries because they appeal to unchanging features of human nature.

After reading some history books on how the first group of Chinese immigrants survived in America of the 19th century, she has become keen on her own family history and that of others.

Bach died in 1750, but it was not until the early 19th century that his musical gift was fully recognized.

But while increasing health was a typical feature of the 20th century, declining birth rate could be a defining one of the 21st.

By the end of the century, if not sooner, the world's oceans will be bluer and greener thanks to a warming climate, according to a new study.

Collection consists of masterworks in sculpture, colored glass, and precious objects from Europe dating from about the 9th to the 15th century.

Dudok alone shaped most century Hilversum and approximately 75 buildings still bear his unique characteristics.

For most of the last century, the car represented what it meant to be American—going forward at high speed to find new worlds.

In fact, half of the 6, 000-7, 000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.

In the 18th and early 19teh centuries, passenger pigeons were the largest bird population in the US.

It has shaped most of century Hilvesum.

Many Chinese brands, having developed their reputations over centuries, are facing new challenges from the modern market.

People had been writing novels for a century—most experts date the first novel to Robinson Crusoe in 1719—but nobody wanted to do it professionally.

Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a scientist in MIT's center for global change science, built a climate model that projects changes to the oceans throughout the century.

Such a view, however, fails to explain the ability of some works of art to excite the human mind across cultures and through centuries.

The birth rate in the 21st century may be much than it was in the 20th.

The company's productions show the new face of 21st century Chinese theatre.

The first is that antitrust authorities need to move form the industrial age into the 21st century.

The model T Ford was built at the piquette plant in Michigan a century ago, with the first rolling off the assembly line on september 27, 1908.

They have set themselves apart in their timeless appeal and will probably be enjoyed for centuries into the future.

Works of this type, he believed, spoke to deep and unvarying features of human nature and could continue to exist over centuries.

Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks so large that they the sky for hours.

He notes that each individual has many ancestors-numbering in the hundreds just a few centuries back.

At the beginning of the century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing.

Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews.

We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper review published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War Ⅱ, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared.

For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century.

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

The computer is the 21st century's culture machine.

To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students’ ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.

Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration—one of the great folk wanderings of history—swept from Europe to America.

Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.

Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.

A century ago Octavia Hill launched the National Trust not to rescue stylish houses but to save“the beauty of natural places for everyone forever”.

The question of GDP and its usefulness has annoyed policymakers for over half a century.

Charles Dickens is probably the best-known and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the 19th century.

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

It is not, however, a sign that they' re getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.

"Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd," william Wordsworth said in the 19th century.

A century ago, few people regularly brushed their teeth multiple times a day.

A century ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners.

At the start of this century, about one-third of crop workers were over the age of 35.

Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.

Following the explosion of creativity in Florence during the 14th century known as the Renaissance, the modern world saw a departure from what it had once known.

For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the

In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses-usually around 1,200 square feet-than the spreading two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.

In the ever-changing 21st century, even the word "habit" carries a negative implication.

It is not, however, a sign that they're getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.

It was argued at the end of the 19th century that humans do not cry because they are sad but they become sad when the tears begin to flow.

It's time to reinvent the formula for how work is conducted, since we are still relying on a very 20th century notion of work, Hagel says.

Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new person

Renaissance ideas had spread throughout Europe well into the 17th century, with the arts and sciences flourishing extraordinarily among those with a more logical disposition.

The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien hirst, "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever", at Sotheby's in London on September 1'th 2008.

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and rad

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first

The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the mid-20th century.

This very fact embodied the new ways of thinking that swept through Europe during most of the 17th century.

To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students' ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teac

Until this century, university libraries were not very price sensitive.

We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the pu