century

century
(pl. -ies)

a period of one hundred years
世纪，百年
a century ago most people walked to work.
一个世纪前，绝大多数人步行上班。
■a period of a hundred years reckoned from the traditional date of the birth of Christ
世纪（以基督传统诞辰为起点的百年）
the fifteenth century.
15世纪。
[as modifier]a twentieth-century lifestyle.
一种20世纪的生活方式。
a score of a hundred in a sporting event, especially a batsman's score of a hundred runs in cricket
（尤指板球等比赛中的）一百得分
a company in the ancient Roman army, originally of a hundred men
（古罗马军团的）百人队
■ancient Roman political division for voting
百人团（古罗马进行选举的政治单位）

派生
centurial
adjective
语源

late Middle English (in sense 3): from Latin centuria, from centum 'hundred'. Sense 1 dates from the early 17th cent

用法

1 Strictly speaking, centuries run from 01 to 100, meaning that the new century begins on the first day of the year 01 (i.e. 1 January 1901, 1 January 2001, etc.). In practice and in popular perception, however, the new century is held to begin when the significant digits in the date change, i.e. on 1 January 2000, when 1999 becomes 2000.
2 Since the 1st century ran from the year 1 to the year 100, the ordinal number (i.e. second, third, fourth, etc.) used to denote the century will always be one digit higher than the corresponding cardinal digit(s). Thus, 1066 is a date in the 11th century, 1542 is a date in the 16th century, and so on

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