in the mid-nineteenth century The structure dates back to the 9th century. By the close of this century another two billion people will have been born. Extra ExamplesTopics Timea1 Oxford Collocations Dictionary (in cricket) a score of 100 runs by one playerTopics Sports: ball and racke...
3100runsscoredby onecricketplayerin aninnings COLLOCATIONS–Meaning 1 : one of the 100-year periods measured from before or after the year of Christ’s birthadjectivesthe 18th/19th/20th/21st etc centuryThe movie is set in the 18th century.the early/mid/late 18th etc centurythe industrial towns...
noun A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly. noun archaic A hundred things; a hundred. noun cricket A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership. noun US, cycling A ride 100 miles in length. noun US...
Cricket.a score of at least 100 runs made by one batsman in a single inning. -century 2 [sen-chuh-ree ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA a combining form ofcentury, affixed to the number that specifies the 100-year span cited, and used only as an adjective: ...
3.DSC100runsscored by onecricketplayer in aninnings〔一名板球运动员在一局所得的〕一百分 n COLLOCATIONS–Meaning 1 : one of the 100-year periods measured from before or after the year of Christ’s birth adjectives the 18th/19th/20th/21st etc century ...
(1620s). Latincenturiawas not used in the sense "one hundred years," for whichsaeculumwas the word (seesecular). The older, general sense is preserved in the meaning "score of 100 points" in cricket and some other sports. Thecentury-plant(American aloe), 1843, was believed to bloom ...
The Modern English meaning is attested from 1650s, short for century of years (1620s). The older, general sense is preserved in the meaning "score of 100 points" in cricket and some other sports. Related: Centurial. 双语例句1. The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the ...
CRICKET (Sport)In the late nineteenth century, baseball became enshrined as America's national sport. Across American culture, the game became imbued with a series of values and characteristics that seemed redolent of life in the Gilded Age and beyond. This article explores the w...
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.4 And I shall have some peace there,for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the mourning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer,and noon a purple glow,
I assumed it was about cricket and how Australians dared to defeat their mother country. Cheeky Aussies! I loved Farrell’s sense of humour and the set of comic characters he puts in the hotel. Theplatoon of elderly ladiesis a delightful crowd, set in their way and yet resilient. There ...