century
英 ['sent??r?]
美['s?nt??ri]
- n. 世紀，百年；（板球）一百分
考試真題
- Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered eggs that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- For centuries, Ukrainians have been drawing complicated patterns on eggs.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- In the 20th century the main threat to international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Two and a half centuries on, most countries impose some sort of tax on alcohol and tobacco.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- The idea of gamification was practiced by some businesses more than a century ago.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨頭) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- A 16th century castle in Scotland is close to collapsing after lumps of soil were washed away by floods, threatening its foundations.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- It’s been in business nearly a century.
出自-2015年12月聽力原文
- In fact, they’ve been in use for centuries.25 centuries ago, kites were well-known in China.
出自-2015年12月聽力原文
- By the 15th century, many people flew kites in Europe.
出自-2015年12月聽力原文
- But while printing quickly caused the hand written book to die out, handwriting lingered on (繼續存在) well into the 16th century.
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world's ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- Central heating was present in every upper-and middle-class home by the second half of the 19th century.
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of its symbolic power.
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- The increase of e-book sales will force the book business to make changes not seen for centuries.
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- Half a century later GM is a typical example of poor management.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- sustainable way is the cornerstone (基石) of our nation's energy security, and will be one of the major challengesof the 21st century.
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
- As he traveled through the homes of early 19th century nobility, Careme forged the new art of French gourmet food.
2018年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Between meals, Careme wrote cook books that would be used in European kitchens for the next century.
2018年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- By the 18th century, there was a feeling of community that had grown.
2017年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was known to be unimpressed by the declining taste of early 18th century cooking, but under pressure to entertain Paris' high society, he too called Careme to his kitchen at Tuileries Palace.
2018年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- He wanted to "set the standard for beauty in classical and mode cooling, and prove to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world", as he wrote in his papers.
2018年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- It's been in business nearly a century.
2015年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered "eggs" that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.
2017年6月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Overwhelmingly, the results show that today, the idea of the American dream—and what it takes to achieve it—looks quite different than it did in the late 20th century.
2017年12月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- People have grown taller over the last century, with South Korean women shooting up by more than 20cm on average, and Iranian men gaining 16.5cm.
2019年6月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- The 18th century really was a waterborne (水運的) century, the 19th century a rail century.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- the 20th century a highway, car, truck century—and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviation century, as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air, " Kasarda says.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- The Vikings' first major discovery occurred in the 9th century.
2017年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- They gathered together temperature readings collected by everything from a 19th century voyage of British naval ships to modern automated ocean probes.
2016年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section A
- This was first mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century.
2017年6月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section A
- While height increased in Uganda and niger during the early 20th century, the trend has reversed in recent years, with height decreasing among l8-year-olds.
2019年6月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Europe hardly had any museums before the 19th century.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination ( ' , 終極) of their classical education.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modem family tells the story of a century of social change.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鱈 魚) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Even during the turbulent years of last century, youth rebellion was often exaggerated in the media.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- When the molten rock of the earth’s core forced its way to the surface to form the throat of a volcano, as the centuries passed, the rock cooled and hardened, shrinkingand cracking into long columns.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- This means, of course, that?almost all of the books published in the 20th century are still under copyright?–?and the last century?saw more books published than in all previous centuries combined.
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
- In the early 20th century Americans believed science and technology could solve virtually all existing problems.
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
- The table dates from the 18th century and is made from Spanish oak.
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
- A chronicle professor, Henry Louis Gates, recently studied are search project looking into 19th century African-American fiction and poetry
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
- This exploitation has reached such extremes that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be extinguished before the end of the century.
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
- It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished, guided, healed-the planet, however, which we have abused to a considerable degree in these past two centuries of industrial exploitation.
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
- Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice,Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination (終極) of their classical education.
2017年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- But a century later, her findings came under scientific criticism.
2018年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- By the late 19th Century, kola nuts were being shipped by the tonne to Europe and the US.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Dating from as far back as the 12th century, they are claimed to be the rarest historic buildings in western Europe.
2019年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- In the last few decades of the 20th century, living standards went up and economic depressions were largely averted in the US.
2019年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- In the mid-19th century, the US government adopted a policy of Americanising Indian children by removing them from their homes and culture.
2016年6月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section B
- It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.
2018年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Maria Sibylla Merian, like many European women of the 17th century, stayed busy managing a household and rearing children.
2018年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining
2016年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.
2016年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- rising temperatures and overfishing in the pristine waters around the Antarctic could see king penguin populations pushed to the brink of extinction by the end of the century, according to a new study.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- She was going to talk with slides about a town in the 18th century.
2017年12月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section A
- since the middle of the 20th century, though, things have turned the opposite way—these days, punishing hours at your desk, rather than days off, are seen as the mark of someone important.
2017年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco- Roman and Italian
2017年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- The earliest printed book we know today appeared in China in the year 868, and metal type was in use in Korea at the beginning of the 1'th century, but it was in Germany around the year 1450 that a printing press using movable metal type was invented.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section B
- The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modern family tells the story of a century of social change.
2016年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.
2016年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- A century ago, the resource in question was oil.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- According to Hume, some works of art can exist for centuries because they appeal to unchanging features of human nature.
2015年高考英語重慶卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 題設
- After reading some history books on how the first group of Chinese immigrants survived in America of the 19th century, she has become keen on her own family history and that of others.
2015年高考英語廣東卷 閱讀理解 信息匹配 題設
- Bach died in 1750, but it was not until the early 19th century that his musical gift was fully recognized.
2015年高考英語重慶卷 單項填空 原文
- But while increasing health was a typical feature of the 20th century, declining birth rate could be a defining one of the 21st.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 任務型閱讀 原文
- By the end of the century, if not sooner, the world's oceans will be bluer and greener thanks to a warming climate, according to a new study.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Collection consists of masterworks in sculpture, colored glass, and precious objects from Europe dating from about the 9th to the 15th century.
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- Dudok alone shaped most century Hilversum and approximately 75 buildings still bear his unique characteristics.
2015年高考英語湖北卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- For most of the last century, the car represented what it meant to be American—going forward at high speed to find new worlds.
2018年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- In fact, half of the 6, 000-7, 000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.
2014年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- In the 18th and early 19teh centuries, passenger pigeons were the largest bird population in the US.
2014年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀B 題設
- It has shaped most of century Hilvesum.
2015年高考英語湖北卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項
- Many Chinese brands, having developed their reputations over centuries, are facing new challenges from the modern market.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 單項填空 原文
- People had been writing novels for a century—most experts date the first novel to Robinson Crusoe in 1719—but nobody wanted to do it professionally.
2018年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a scientist in MIT's center for global change science, built a climate model that projects changes to the oceans throughout the century.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Such a view, however, fails to explain the ability of some works of art to excite the human mind across cultures and through centuries.
2015年高考英語重慶卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文
- The birth rate in the 21st century may be much than it was in the 20th.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 任務型閱讀 題設
- The company's productions show the new face of 21st century Chinese theatre.
2017年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- The first is that antitrust authorities need to move form the industrial age into the 21st century.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- The model T Ford was built at the piquette plant in Michigan a century ago, with the first rolling off the assembly line on september 27, 1908.
2018年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- They have set themselves apart in their timeless appeal and will probably be enjoyed for centuries into the future.
2015年高考英語重慶卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文
- Works of this type, he believed, spoke to deep and unvarying features of human nature and could continue to exist over centuries.
2015年高考英語重慶卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文
- Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks so large that they the sky for hours.
2014年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- He notes that each individual has many ancestors-numbering in the hundreds just a few centuries back.
出自-2009年考研閱讀原文
- At the beginning of the century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing.
出自-2010年考研翻譯原文
- Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews.
出自-2010年考研閱讀原文
- We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper review published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War Ⅱ, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared.
出自-2010年考研閱讀原文
- For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century.
出自-2011年考研閱讀原文
- The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.
出自-2012年考研閱讀原文
- The computer is the 21st century's culture machine.
出自-2012年考研閱讀原文
- To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students’ ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.
出自-2014年考研閱讀原文
- Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration—one of the great folk wanderings of history—swept from Europe to America.
出自-2015年考研翻譯原文
- Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.
出自-2015年考研閱讀原文
- Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.
出自-2016年考研閱讀原文
- A century ago Octavia Hill launched the National Trust not to rescue stylish houses but to save“the beauty of natural places for everyone forever”.
出自-2016年考研閱讀原文
- The question of GDP and its usefulness has annoyed policymakers for over half a century.
出自-2017年考研閱讀原文
- Charles Dickens is probably the best-known and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the 19th century.
出自-2017年考研閱讀原文
- The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文
- It is not, however, a sign that they' re getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文
- "Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd," william Wordsworth said in the 19th century.
2009年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- A century ago, few people regularly brushed their teeth multiple times a day.
2010年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- A century ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners.
2013年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- At the start of this century, about one-third of crop workers were over the age of 35.
2019年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.
2012年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Following the explosion of creativity in Florence during the 14th century known as the Renaissance, the modern world saw a departure from what it had once known.
2020年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the
2011年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses-usually around 1,200 square feet-than the spreading two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.
2011年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- In the ever-changing 21st century, even the word "habit" carries a negative implication.
2009年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- It is not, however, a sign that they're getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.
2018年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- It was argued at the end of the 19th century that humans do not cry because they are sad but they become sad when the tears begin to flow.
2011年考研真題（英語一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- It's time to reinvent the formula for how work is conducted, since we are still relying on a very 20th century notion of work, Hagel says.
2014年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new person
2015年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Renaissance ideas had spread throughout Europe well into the 17th century, with the arts and sciences flourishing extraordinarily among those with a more logical disposition.
2020年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien hirst, "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever", at Sotheby's in London on September 1'th 2008.
2010年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and rad
2012年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first
2018年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the mid-20th century.
2010年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- This very fact embodied the new ways of thinking that swept through Europe during most of the 17th century.
2020年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students' ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teac
2014年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Until this century, university libraries were not very price sensitive.
2020年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the pu
2010年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ