A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
世纪
Century
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
联合国的整个基础是所有国家- -无论大国还是小国- -都有权有分量，有权投票，有权得到注意，有权成为二十世纪的一部分。
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。
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
从某种意义上说，一个通晓历史的人，可以说从世界诞生之日起就生活在世上，并且在每一个世纪都在不断地增加他的知识储备。
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。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
天才发现自己总是早了一个世纪。