millennium
a period of 100 years counted from what is believed to be the year of the birth of Jesus Christ: 世纪
Rome was founded in the eighth century BC (= before Christ).罗马建于公元前8世纪。
He's an expert on 15th-century Italian art.他是研究15世纪意大利艺术的专家。
a score of 100 runs (= points) in cricket: （板球）100分
Both captains scored centuries.
His third Test century came from only 135 balls.
 the turn of the century
the time when one century ends and another begins: 世纪之交
The museum reopened at the turn of the century.这座博物馆在世纪之交重新开放。
Life in the 19th century was very different from what it is now.19世纪时的生活与现在大不相同。
Peru was colonized by the Spanish in the 16th century.秘鲁在16世纪沦为西班牙的殖民地。
She was probably the most highly educated prime minister of this century.她可能是本世纪学历最高的首相。
For centuries, Native Americans traded with European settlers.美洲印第安人和欧洲殖民者做了几百年的生意。
For more than half a century, the reassuring tones of BBC newscasters have informed British television viewers about world events.半个多世纪以来，英国广播公司的播音员用沉稳的语调向英国电视观众报道世界大事。

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century | American Dictionary

century
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsen·tʃə·ri/
a period of 100 years:
Her medical career spanned half a century.
A century is also a particular period of 100 years:
the fourth century B.C.
His music was influential in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Examples of century

century
Up until the twentieth century, regulations regarding marital fitness tended to follow the common-law rules on the capacity of parties to contract.
No further gains were achieved in the last decade of the century, during which the third- and fourth-generation cultivars replaced the original introduced cultivars.
By the end of the century, however, a few women had managed to break the ranks of male professionalism and attain medical degrees.
Ultimately the genre survives in the twenty-first century primarily in our university choruses and local choral societies.
The name has survived the demise of the political power with which it was originally identified by almost three centuries.
Just how much autonomy cells possess was a matter of serious debate in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century.
Indigenous political resistance teaches us how to rethink politics for the twenty-first century, and social anthropology has a role to play in this project.
Creating culturally relevant ways of thinking about diversity and aging : theoretical challenges for the twenty-first century.
As a result, our ability to make sense of women's lives and experiences in the late 20th century suffered from a lack of historical perspective.
Most were very specialized, and have suffered for it in the late twentieth century compared to the rest.
In the twentieth century landscape no longer offers this compensation or conciliation.
It is easy to feel the power of this scheme at the latter end of the twentieth century in a disintegrating society.
The chief obstacle to such a law in the first part of the twentieth century was opposition from settlers and farmers.
Conventionalism has had a tremendous impact on science and philosophy throughout the twentieth century.
It is not, however, the experimentalist impulse of a radicalized pragmatism that stands to blame for the atrocities and absurdities of the twentieth century.
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century of neglect
Those of us who may feel frustration at so little progress after a centuryofneglect, in no sense direct that frustration at him.
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