- 1/mɪˈleniəm/千禧年、千年（一千年為一個單位；常指西元2000年那個時間點）
A millennium is a period of one thousand years. People often use it to talk about a big turning point in time, like 'the turn of the millennium' meaning the year 2000, when we moved from the 1900s into the 2000s. The plural is 'millennia'.
示範例句 · Example
People have lived and farmed on this land for millennia.
中文翻譯人們已經在這塊土地上生活並耕作了好幾千年。
常見搭配
for millennia
長達數千年
for thousands of years
Farmers have used this simple tool for millennia.
over a millennium
歷時超過一千年
across a period longer than a thousand years
The city grew slowly over a millennium.
the second millennium
第二個千年
the thousand-year period from the year 1001 to 2000
The book ends as the second millennium draws to a close.
意思相近
a thousand years
組成mille- (thousand, from Latin) + -ennium (years) — 'mille' is the same root as 'million' and 'millimeter'.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Millenniumname
- 1
The Kingdom of Christ on Earth, predicted by Christians to come about someday.
- 2
A particular long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.
- Near-synonym: utopia
millenniumnoun/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/
- 1
A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
- But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.
- How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon.
- 2
The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.
- A huge fireworks display was put on in Sydney to celebrate the millennium.
- 3
archaicAny long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.
- Near-synonym: utopia
- expecting a millennium
millenniumname/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/
- 1
ChristianityThe period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
- usher in the millennium
- The Nazis' concept for the so-called Thousand-Year Reich of their infallible Leader has been described as but a pale pseudoreligious false-prophet imitation of the Christian concept of the millennium of Christ regnant.
- 2
archaicA particular long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.
- Near-synonym: utopia
- usher in the millennium
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