Einstein was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century.
爱因斯坦是20世纪最伟大的思想家之一。
She looked like a princess in a nineteenth-century illustration.
她看上去像19世纪插图里的公主。
Some have called him the greatest entertainer of the twentieth century.
有人称他为20世纪最伟大的表演艺术家。
In the mid-nineteenth century, Dorothea Dix began to campaign for humane treatment of the mentally ill.
在19世纪中叶，多罗西娅·迪克斯发起了为精神病患者争取人道待遇的运动。
The storm was the most powerful to hit Hawaii this century. It levelled sugar plantations and destroyed homes.
这是本世纪袭击夏威夷最猛烈的暴风雨。它夷平了甘蔗种植园，也摧毁了家园。
How do children acquire the skills needed for the 21st century?
孩子们如何获得21世纪所需的技能？
Florence Nightingale was a nurse who saved many people in the 19th century.
弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔是一名护士，她在19世纪救了很多人。
Andalusia in southern Spain was Europe's main silk-producing centre in the tenth century.
西班牙南部的安达卢西亚是10世纪欧洲主要的丝绸生产中心。
The Potala Palace was built in the seventh century and it has a long history of over 1300 years.
布达拉宫始建于公元7世纪，距今已有1300多年的悠久历史。
By the thirteenth century, however, Italy had become Europe's leader in silk production and export.
然而到了13世纪，意大利已经成为欧洲丝绸生产和出口的领先者。
Thanks to film, future generations will know the 20th century more intimately than any other period.
由于电影的出现，未来几代人对20世纪的了解将比对以往任何时期的了解都更加深入。
Bach died in 1750, but it was not until the early 19th century that his musical gift was fully recognized.
巴赫逝于1750年，但直到19世纪初，他的音乐天赋才得到充分认可。
But it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that architectural acoustics became a scientific field.
但直到二十世纪初，建筑声学才正式成为一个科学领域。
Perceptions of the visible world were greatly altered by the invention of photography in the middle of the nineteenth century.
在19世纪中叶，摄影术的发明极大地改变了人们对可见世界的感知。
It fosters children's creativity, cooperation and problem-solving skills—all of which are critical for a 21st century workforce.
它能培养孩子们的创造力、合作能力和解决问题的能力。这些能力对21世纪的劳动力来说都是至关重要的。
Milankovitch proposed in the early twentieth century that the ice ages were caused by variations in the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
米兰科维奇在20世纪早期提出，冰河时代是由地球绕太阳运行轨道的变化引起的。
A century ago, chemist Svante Arrhenius started one of the first debates over the potential for humans to influence the planet's climate.
一个世纪前，化学家斯万特·阿伦尼乌斯就人类影响地球气候的可能性展开了最早的辩论之一。
Although half a century has passed, Shao Guohua never forgot the film ticket his teacher gave him that warmed his heart when he was a boy.
半个世纪过去了，邵国华从未忘记儿时老师给他的那张温暖他心灵的电影票。
Historians credit repeated locust invasions in the nineteenth century with reshaping United States agriculture west of the Mississippi River.
历史学家认为，19世纪一再发生的蝗虫入侵改变了美国密西西比河以西的农业格局。
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.
过去的一个世纪里，人们的身高有所增长，其中韩国女性的平均身高猛增了20厘米以上，伊朗男性的平均身高增加了16厘米。
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."
一个世纪之前，奥克塔维亚·希尔发起建立了国民信托组织，不是为了拯救时尚的楼房，而是“为公众永远保存自然场所之美”。
First published in 1783, this reference book by the American man of letters Noah Webster remained a bestseller in the U.S. throughout the 19th century.
这本参考书由美国文学家诺亚·韦伯斯特于1783年首次出版，在整个19世纪一直是美国的畅销书。
We know no nation can meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of the 21st century alone—all of us have to take responsibility and work together.
我们懂得，没有任何国家能够单独应对和把握21世纪的挑战与机遇——我们大家都必须承担责任，共同努力。
Against a backdrop of drastic changes in economy and population structure, younger Americans are drawing a new 21st-century road map to success, a latest poll has found.
一项最新民调发现，在经济和人口结构发生巨变的背景下，美国的年轻一代正在绘制一幅21世纪通向成功的地图。
By the sixteenth century, the Incas of South America ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands from what is now Ecuador to central Chile.
到了16世纪，南美洲的印加人统治着一个帝国，它沿着太平洋海岸和安第斯高地，从现在的厄瓜多尔一直延伸到智利中部。
Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the most famous African American of the nineteenth century; indeed, when he died in 1895 he was among the most distinguished public figures in the United States.
弗雷德里克·道格拉斯无疑是19世纪最著名的非裔美国人；事实上，当他于1895年去世时，他是美国最著名的公众人物之一。
The oldest historical mention of noodles appeared in the third century AD in China.
关于面条最早的记载出现在公元3世纪的中国。
In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Weiqi traveled to Japan, and then to Europe in the 19th century.
隋唐时期，围棋传入日本，19世纪传入欧洲。
That changed in the thirteenth century when Europeans learned about a very useful Chinese invention: paper.
这种情况在13世纪发生了变化，当时欧洲人了解到一项非常有用的中国发明：纸。
That changed in the thirteenth century when Europeans learned about a very useful Chinese invention: paper.
这种情况在13世纪发生了变化，当时欧洲人了解到一项非常有用的中国发明：纸。
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