The Catholic Church resisted, not coming over to the new hours for about a century.
天主教会为此进行了反抗，且大约一个世纪都没有接受这个新的时间划分法。
Western painting was introduced into China about a century ago.
西画被引进中国已有百年。
Because the blueberry wasn't domesticated until just about a century ago.
蓝莓是一世纪前才被驯化的。
About a century later, science finally attached a zoological name to the Kraken.
大约又经过了一个世纪，科学终于对这种动物加上了一个动物学上的名称—“挪威海怪”。
The present conflict between Arabs and Jews in Palestine has been going on for about a century.
目前阿拉伯人与犹太人在巴勒斯坦地区的冲突已持续大约1个世纪。
Math geeks, however, will find that number hilarious because of something that happened about a century ago.
数学狂人们却知道这个数字有啥好笑的，因为这个数字的典故一个世纪前就发生了。
H.I.V. evolved about a century ago from a chimpanzee virus known as simian immunodeficiency virus, or S.I.V..
例如，HIV是在100年前从猴免疫缺陷病毒，或叫SIV的黑猩猩病毒演化而来。
A forensic expert says fingerprint on the painting may prove that it's the first major work from Da Vinci discovered in about a century.
一名法院专家称，油画上的手印或许可以证明，这是近一个世纪以来发现的首幅达芬奇主要作品。
Then, about a century ago, large commercial chicken farming began, and companies looked for breeds that would be well-suited to mass production.
然后，大约100年前，出现了大型商用养鸡厂，很多公司都在寻找能够大量繁殖的鸡种。 “最适合食用的鸡，事实证明，考尼什鸡最合适。
'Certainly, when Pausanias toured Greece about a century after Plutarch, he found Pan's shrines, sacred caves and sacred mountains still very much frequented.
确信不疑的是，一个世纪之后，当Pausanias(希腊历史学家)游历全希腊时，发现有关潘神的神殿和圣地仍然遍布山林。
In the meanwhile, the paper shows the far-reaching and great influence of the criteria, which has stood the test for about a century, displaying the great vitality.
同时，也想表明“信，达，雅”作为翻译标准，影响之大、之深，虽经历了一个多世纪的检验，仍具有强大的生命力。
Since its debut about a century ago, and especially over the last half century, Asian American literature has gradually established itself as a discourse in American literature.
百年前滥觞的美国亚裔文学在最近半个世纪日益走向成熟，在美国文坛逐步确立了话语 地位。
Carbon dioxide, once released, stays in the atmosphere and continues to have a warming effect for about a century, and industrial infrastructure is built to have a useful life of several decades.
二氧化碳一旦被释放出来，就会留在大气层中，在一个世纪左右都会持续产生温室效应，但工业设施的使用寿命才有几十年。
Glacier National Park now has only about 25 glaciers, compared with around 150 a century ago.
冰川国家公园目前只有大约25座冰川，而在一个世纪前约有150座。
Such stereotypes about spoiled, lonely and peculiar only children have endured for more than a century.
这种关于独生子女被宠坏的孤独古怪刻板印象已经持续了一个多世纪。
The first story about a monster in Loch Ness was told over 500 years ago, but the legend of the monster spread widely only in the twenties century.
关于尼斯湖水怪的第一个故事已经流传了500多年，但是关于尼斯湖水怪的传说直到20世纪才广泛流传。
It is not, however, a sign that they're getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.
但是，这并不表示他们正认真考虑为21世纪改革邮政系统。
He is writing a historical novel about nineteenth-century France.
他正在写一部关于19世纪的法国的历史小说。
For that, a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay.
为此，对像德国泰坦尼克号这样的痛苦回忆半个世纪的有意遗忘，也许是一个合理的代价。
On Saturday, this weekly programme includes the first part of a documentary series about the discovery of a l5th century village.
周六，这个每周一次的节目包括关于发现一个15世纪村庄的纪录片系列的第一部分。
Set in the nineteenth century, it is about a boy called Oliver who finds himself alone in the world.
故事发生在19世纪，是关于一个叫奥利弗的小男孩，他发现自己在这个世界上孑然一身。
That changed in the thirteenth century when Europeans learned about a very useful Chinese invention: paper.
这种情况在13世纪发生了变化，当时欧洲人了解到一项非常有用的中国发明：纸。
Ms. Lenders said in the past, a uniform was about all looking the same but in the 21st century it was important for students to be able to choose clothes that they liked.
伦德斯女士说，在过去，校服看起来都差不多，但在21世纪，让学生能够选择自己喜欢的衣服很重要。
When Spanish explorers reached South America in the early 16th century, they heard stories about a tribe of natives high in the Andes mountains in what is now Colombia.
当西班牙探险者在16世纪初抵达南美洲时，道听途说了些有关一个土著部落的故事，这个部落就位于现在的哥伦比亚境内的安第斯山脉中。
This nature reserve exists about a half of a century, but only water supply was built and nothing else. While aurochs need some water to stand such hot weather.
这个自然保护区存在了接近一个半世纪，但仅仅只提供了充足的用水，用来满足野牛们应对炎热天气的需求。
But even with more than a century and a half of observations, many unresolved questions remain about the farthest planet from the sun.
不过，即使经过了一个半世纪的观测，这个距离太阳最远的行星，仍有许多尚未解决的问题。
HISTORY buffs still wax poetic about the brutal patent battles a century ago between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, another aviation pioneer.
一个世纪前，莱特兄弟与另一位航空先驱格伦·柯蒂斯之间，爆发了专利恶战，迄今，历史爱好者们谈论起来，仍热情高涨，诗意盎然。
It was the worst wheat disease of the first half of the 20th century, killing about a fifth of America's harvest in periodic epidemics.
谷物锈病是二十世纪上半叶最为可怕的小麦疾病，在一次流行当中曾美国损失了其收成的近五分之一。
Probably about the nineteenth century would be a good answer, but that's counterintuitive to most of us.
19世纪是一个比较好的答案，但这与我们大部分人了解的不同。
Probably about the nineteenth century would be a good answer, but that's counterintuitive to most of us.
19世纪是一个比较好的答案，但这与我们大部分人了解的不同。
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