century
gb/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/ us/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
A2
อังกฤษ
~ 500
évszázad, század, százfutásos eredmény, century
คำนาม
A2
1
รูปแบบการใช้:
[a/the] century
The 20th century saw rapid technological change.
A 20. században gyors technológiai változások mentek végbe.
Many traditions date back several centuries.
Sok hagyomány több évszázadra nyúlik vissza.
The building was constructed in the 18th century.
We are living in the 21st century.
The turn of the century brought new challenges.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
The 20th century started in 1901.
A 20. század 1901-ben kezdődött.
People lived very differently a century ago.
Az emberek egy évszázaddal ezelőtt egészen másképp éltek.
We are now in the 21st century.
A century has 100 years.
The city is more than one century old.
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners sometimes confuse 'century' with 'decade', which is only 10 years.
ความหมาย
a 100-year time span
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
turn of the century
|21st century
|centuries ago
|early 20th century
|mid-century
คำพ้องความหมาย
hundred years (Exact equivalent but less formal and less commonly used in historical contexts.)
คำตรงข้าม
decade (Refers to a period of ten years, the opposite in scale.)
หัวข้อ
history
|time
|core_vocabulary
คำจำกัดความ
A time period of 100 years.
A period of one hundred consecutive years.
คำนาม
B2
2
century
C2
He scored his third century of the season.
A szezonban már a harmadik százfutásos eredményét érte el.
The crowd cheered as she reached her century.
A közönség ujjongott, amikor elérte a száz futást.
Scoring a century is a major achievement for any batsman.
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He scored a century in the match.
Százfutásos eredményt ért el a mérkőzésen.
She made her first century last year.
Tavaly érte el az első százfutásos eredményét.
A player gets a century when they score 100 runs.
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Non-cricket fans may think 'century' here means 100 years instead of 100 runs.
ความหมาย
100 runs scored in cricket
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
score a century
|hit a century
|make a century
คำพ้องความหมาย
hundred (Informal shorthand for scoring 100 runs in cricket.)
คำตรงข้าม
duck (In cricket, scoring zero runs in an innings.)
หัวข้อ
sports
|core_vocabulary
คำจำกัดความ
In cricket, when one player scores 100 runs in one turn at batting.
In cricket, a score of one hundred runs made by a single batsman in one innings.
ไวยากรณ์
รูปคำในพจนานุกรม
century
IPA
GB/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
US/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
พยางค์และการเน้นเสียง
cen - tury (2 พยางค์)
Stress on 1st syllable (cen)
รูปคำ
Noun
- Base: century
- Plural: centuries
กลุ่มคำที่เกี่ยวข้อง
Forms
centuries
noun
Related words
centennial
adjective
centenary
noun
Advanced or less common
centenarian
noun
bicentennial
adjective
วลีและสำนวน
centuries ago
1/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚiz əɡˈoʊ/
fixed phrase
a very long time ago (hundreds of years)
A time many hundreds of years before now.
ตัวอย่าง
- This castle was built centuries ago.
- Centuries ago, people traveled by horse and carriage.
quarter-century
1/kwˈɔɹtɚ sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
fixed phrase
a time span of 25 years
A period of twenty-five years.
ตัวอย่าง
- He worked there for over a quarter-century.
- The company is celebrating a quarter-century in business.
turn of the century
1/tˈɚn əv ðə sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
fixed phrase
time when one century ends and another begins
The time when one hundred-year period ends and the next begins.
ตัวอย่าง
- Many new inventions appeared around the turn of the century.
- She was born at the turn of the 19th century.