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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I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.
我认为本世纪发生的一件重要的事情是预期寿命翻了一番。
If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.
如果这可以被称为普通人的世纪，那么足球，在所有的运动中，无疑是他的运动……在一个被氢弹和凝固汽油弹所困扰的世界里，足球场是一个让理智和希望不受干扰的地方。
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。
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。
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
在这个世纪里只有一个伟人和一件伟大的事情:拿破仑和自由。因为没有伟人，就求他的大。
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。