A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
世纪
Century
This young century will be liberty's century.
这个年轻的世纪将是自由的世纪。
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
天才发现自己总是早了一个世纪。
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
飞机的世纪有权拥有自己的音乐。
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
旅行就像与其他世纪的人交谈一样。
A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.
一个世纪的剧变留下了巨大的人口伤痕。
Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
在印刷术被发现之前，一个世纪等于一千年。
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
非洲人是我的兄弟，但他是我几个世纪以来的弟弟。
Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.
他希望航行到下一个世纪，而不是驶向夕阳。
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
我曾经非常喜欢陀思妥耶夫斯基和托尔斯泰，他们是上个世纪的大人物。
I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
我认为本世纪头十年将被铭记为极端主义的时代。
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
卡内基促进教学发展基金会在本世纪的大部分时间里一直存在。
For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
几个世纪以来，我们一直生活在一个不是法律而是人民统治的社会，没有一个合法的国家。
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Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.
很有可能，二十世纪注定会看到使我们能够以远远超过鸟的速度从一个大陆飞到另一个大陆的自然力量。
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
说二十世纪是物理学的世纪，二十一世纪将是生物学的世纪，这已成为公认的智慧的一部分。
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
本世纪的三大问题;无产阶级中男人的堕落，妇女因饥饿而屈服，儿童因黑暗而萎缩。
Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.
我出生后不久，他就移民到了德班，在世纪之交，我母亲的家族成员在那里定居下来，此后不久，家族的其他成员也相继来到这里。
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
有些人，与其说他们有天赋，不如说他们有某种才能，能够在一个世纪，甚至是十年的愿望实现之前，就预见到这些愿望。
Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
女人一直都很勇敢……他们在保护自己的孩子时总是无所畏惧，在上个世纪他们在争取自己权利的斗争中是无所畏惧的。