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millennium是什么意思

  • 英式英标[məˈlɛniəm]
  • 美式音标[mɪ\'lɛnɪrm]

n. 千年期,千禧年;一千年,千年纪念;太平盛世,黄金时代

中文词源

millennium 一千年,千禧年

来自拉丁语mille,千,词源同million,annus,年,词源同annual.即一千年,千禧年。

英文词源

millennium
millennium: see mile
millennium (n.)
1630s, from Modern Latin millennium, from Latin mille "thousand" (see million) + annus "year" (see annual); formed on analogy of biennium, triennium, etc. For vowel change, see biennial. First in English in sense of "1,000-year period of Christ's anticipated rule on Earth" (Rev. xx:1-5). Sense of "any 1,000-year period" first recorded 1711. Meaning "the year 2000" attested from 1970.

实用例句

1. the second millennium AD
公元第二个千年
来自《权威词典》
2. He lived long enough to see in the new millennium.
他活到了新千年.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.
全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Acupuncture was practised in China as long ago as the third millennium BC.
中国早在公元前3,000年就已开始采用针灸疗法。
来自柯林斯例句
5. We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.
我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟.
来自《简明英汉词典》

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