Century

(noun.) a period of 100 years.

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• It is also said that one man to-day, with the aid of a steam engine, performs the work of 120 men in the last century. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• These got fairly to work at the beginning of the century, and the uses of machinery spread to the treatment of leather. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Heating by the circulation of hot water through pipes was also originated or revived during the 18th century, and a short time before Watt's circulation of steam. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This was the India into which the French and English were thrusting during the eighteenth century. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In agriculture the raising of grain has extended in the Nineteenth Century to enormous proportions. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A century and a half later came Wycliffe (1320-1384). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Among the important and interesting achievements of chemistry in the Nineteenth Century is the _artificial production of organic compounds_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Whatever women may be, I thought that men, in the nineteenth century, were above superstition. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• His Art and its Defects Lasted until Nineteenth Century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• We have given an epitome of the development of the submarine vessel up to the opening of the twentieth century. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• And yet some of the brightest intellects of the century have been engaged in devising means to accomplish the result, and all are not yet agreed as to which is the best way. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It is even related that in the third century B.C. Buddhist missionaries came from the court of King Asoka in India. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I think St. Helena, the mother of Constantine, found this wonderful memento when she was here in the third century. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The church in the thirteenth century was extending its legal power in the world, and losing its grip upon men's consciences. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Is it not the Bible of the Massachusetts language, translated by Elliot, and printed in New-England about the middle of the last century? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Originally no doubt, and for untold centuries, the use was confined to the hairy, undressed, fresh, or dried skins, known as pelts. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• By the ninth and tenth centuries there are not only grammars, but great lexicons, and a mass of philological learning in Islam. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For many centuries Constantinople was the greatest and richest city in the world. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The bark of trees made into a liquor has been used for centuries in treating practically all kinds of hides. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• During those two centuries the Japanese remained as completely cut off from the rest of the world as though they lived upon another planet. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• All of this is very reminiscent of the religious and political state of affairs in Greece fourteen centuries earlier. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Nevertheless, Manich?ism held its own in Persia with Nestorian Christianity and orthodox Zoroastrianism (Mazdaism) for some centuries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There were two centuries each of mechanics and musicians, and the _proletarii_ made up one century. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But it is taking the revolution many centuries to produce a new mind. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Other rocks, like limestone, are so readily soluble in water that from the small pores and cavities eaten out by the water, there may develop in long centuries, caves and caverns (Fig. 30). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But before coming to that, we have to note the theory of experience and knowledge developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The English mind again had a phase of brightness in the seventh and eighth centuries, and it did not shine again until the fifteenth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At this point a voice echoes down the centuries to us. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Seventeen or eighteen centuries ago this Coliseum was the theatre of Rome, and Rome was mistress of the world. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Presently in the fourth and fifth centuries the weather grew drier and the grass became scanty, and the nomads stirred afresh. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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