核心畫面

You can picture a 'century' as a single block of 100 years counted off together — a hundred candles in a row, one for each year. The Latin root 'centum' simply means 'a hundred', and everything this word does grows from that fixed count of 100.

可以把 century 想成「一整段一百年」這個固定的數量單位——把一百年像一百根蠟燭排成一排,一起算成一塊。它的拉更多收起可以把 century 想成「一整段一百年」這個固定的數量單位——把一百年像一百根蠟燭排成一排,一起算成一塊。它的拉丁字根 centum 就是「一百」的意思,後面所有用法都是從這個「一百」長出來的。

From the word’s history

From Latin 'centum' = one hundred, via 'centuria' (a group of a hundred).

源自拉丁文 centum(一百),再經 centuria(一百人的一組)而來;這也是它核心畫面始終扣著「一百」的原因。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), 'century'

From the picture

板球的一百分

同樣是「滿一百」這個數量,只是搬到板球場上:單一打者一輪打出 100 分,大家就借用「一百」這個詞叫它 century。核心還是那個「一百」,換了個場合去數而已。

century in cricket · noun · A2

In the game of cricket, a score of 100 runs made by one player in one turn at batting.

一百分

Also in this word

100 years · noun · A2

A length of time that is 100 years long.

一百年

a century (1800s etc.) · noun · A2

One of the 100-year periods counted from the year Christ was born, like the 1800s or the 1900s.

世紀

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Centuryname

  • 1

    A surname.

centurynoun/ˈsɛn.t͡ʃʊɹ.i/

  • 1

    A period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.

    • Holonyms: kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
    • Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < microcentury (humorous) < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond
  • 2

    A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of one hundred army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing sixty to seventy or eighty) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.

    • Holonyms: maniple, cohort, legion
  • 3

    A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.

  • 4

    A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.

    • 'tis the subject of whole books: I might cite a century of authors pro and con.
    • Hamilton reached his century 14 years after securing his maiden pole in the Canadian Grand Prix in 2007, which he went on to win to take the first step on the road to becoming Formula One's most successful driver.
  • 5

    ball-gamescricketgamesA hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.

    • He has scored 44 limited-overs centuries.
    • They put on a century stand to help their team recover from 57–4 to 198–4.
  • 6

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesA score of one hundred points.

    • That was his tenth professional century.
  • 7

    hobbieslifestylesportsA race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.

  • 8

    informalA banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。