century

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  • n.世纪；百年；100 年；（一个运动员所得的） 100 分
  • Web世特力；世纪表；一世纪
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Century
n.
1.
100 年；百年a period of 100 years
2.
世纪any of the periods of 100 years before or after the birth of Christ
the 20th century(= AD 1901–2000 or 1900–1999)
20 世纪
eighteenth-century writers
18 世纪的作家
3.
（一个运动员所得的） 100 分a score of 100 runs by one player

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1.
measured by the share of GDP gobbled up by the taxman, tax burdens have come down in most countries since the turn of the 21st century.
按照被税务人员收走的GDP份额衡量，大多数国家在21世纪拐点以来的税收负担都下降了。
àn zhào bèi shuì wù rén yuán shōu zǒu de GDP fèn é héng liáng , dà duō shù guó jiā zài èr shí yī shì jì guǎi diǎn yǐ lái de shuì shōu fù dān dōu xià jiàng le 。
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2.
The year 2009 must be an extraordinary year since the beginning of this century, for there are many moments and events worth remembering.
2009年是21世纪初不平凡的一年，有许多值得我们记忆的时刻和事件。
èr líng líng jiǔ nián shì èr shí yī shì jì chū bù píng fán de yī nián , yǒu xǔ duō zhí de wǒ men jì yì de shí kè hé shì jiàn 。
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3.
Credit is looking forward to striving with you to make progresses and create splendid future in the new century!
在新的世纪里，佳川针纺期待着与您共同努力发展，创造辉煌的未来！
zài xīn de shì jì lǐ , jiā chuān zhēn fǎng qī dài zhe yǔ nín gòng tóng nǔ lì fā zhǎn , chuàng zào huī huáng de wèi lái !
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4.
The economy began to grow at double-digit growth rates, a speed it has maintained now for a quarter of a century.
目前，中国已经将两位数的经济增长维持了25年。
mù qián , zhōng guó yǐ jīng jiāng liǎng wèi shù de jīng jì zēng zhǎng wéi chí le èr shí wǔ nián 。
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5.
Half a century after the sun set on empire, the British still struggle to see themselves as a European rather than global power.
英帝国日落半个世纪后，英国人仍将自己看作一个全球大国，而不是欧洲大国。
yīng dì guó rì luò bàn gè shì jì hòu , yīng guó rén réng jiāng zì jǐ kàn zuò yī gè quán qiú dà guó , ér bú shì ōu zhōu dà guó 。
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6.
When I last saw her a quarter of a century ago, she was a scruffy, cerebral Oxford undergraduate.
我上一次见她，还是25年前。那时候，她是个不修边幅、思维理智的牛津大学学生。
wǒ shàng yī cì jiàn tā , hái shì èr shí wǔ nián qián 。 nà shí hòu , tā shì gè bù xiū biān fú 、 sī wéi lǐ zhì de niú jīn dà xué xué shēng 。
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7.
NARRATOR: To many, the loans-for-shares deal was more than a scandal; it was the theft of the century.
旁白：对于许多人来说，贷款换股权交易更多的是一个丑闻，它是整个世纪最大的一次盗窃。
páng bái : duì yú xǔ duō rén lái shuō , dài kuǎn huàn gǔ quán jiāo yì gèng duō de shì yī gè chǒu wén , tā shì zhěng gè shì jì zuì dà de yī cì dào qiè 。
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One of the major issues affecting nineteenth-century China was the question of how to deal with other countries.
的主要问题之一影响19世纪中国的问题是如何处理与其他国家。
de zhǔ yào wèn tí zhī yī yǐng xiǎng shí jiǔ shì jì zhōng guó de wèn tí shì rú hé chǔ lǐ yǔ qí tā guó jiā 。
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At the beginning of the 19th century, Switzerland is one of the most highly industrialised countries in Europe.
19世纪初期，瑞士已经成为欧洲最为工业化的国家之一。
shí jiǔ shì jì chū qī , ruì shì yǐ jīng chéng wéi ōu zhōu zuì wéi gōng yè huà de guó jiā zhī yī 。
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Remarkably, five of the last eight years make up the list of the five warmest years of the past century, says James Hansen, GISS director.
显着地，最后八年中的五组成五过去的世纪最温暖的数年目录，詹姆士汉森，GISS指导者说。
xiǎn zháo dì , zuì hòu bā nián zhōng de wǔ zǔ chéng wǔ guò qù de shì jì zuì wēn nuǎn de shù nián mù lù , zhān mǔ shì hàn sēn , GISS zhǐ dǎo zhě shuō 。
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