cen‧tu‧ry S2 W1 / sentʃəri / 名词 ( 复数形式 centuries ) [可数名词]

1 one of the 100-year periods measured from before or after the year of Christ’s birth

the 11th/18th/21st etc century

The church was built in the 13th century.

the next/last century

by the beginning of the next century

the story of life on a small farm at the turn of the century (= the beginning of the century )

2 a period of 100 years :

many centuries ago

3 100 run s scored by one cricket player in an innings

COLLOCATIONS

形容词

the 18th/19th/20th/21st etc century The movie is set in the 18th century.

the early/mid/late 18th etc century the industrial towns of the early 19th century

the last/next century The boats were built in the last century.

the present century The present century has seen the start of international terrorism.

短语

the beginning of the century Coco Chanel was born in France at the beginning of the century.

the turn of the century (= the time when one century ends and another begins ) The town was expanding at the turn of the century.

the end/close of the century He was writing his books towards the end of the 19th century.

the first/second half of the century In the second half of the century, people’s wages began to rise.

18th-/19th- etc century art/music/literature Nothing compares with Florence’s beautiful 15th-century architecture.

a16th-/19th- etc century house/church etc They live in a 17th-century farmhouse.

动词

date from the 18th etc century (= it was started, built etc in the 18th etc century ) The present church dates from the 13th century.