A century earlier, Henry Cavendish had noted the existence of a residual gas when oxygen and nitrogen are removed from air, but its importance had not been realized.

一个世纪前，亨利·卡文迪什注意到当空气中的氧气和氮气被除去，还有其他剩余气体存在，但人们还没有认识到它们的重要性。

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He found it in the nearly forgotten story of shipwreck and survival that a century earlier had given Fraser Island its name.

他在一个几乎被忘却的海难与生存的故事中找到了它。一个世纪前，是这个故事给了弗雷泽岛一个名字。

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Middle-class Americans still enjoy more luxury than upper-class Americans enjoyed a century earlier, and the fin de siècle was not an especially gloomy time.

现在的中产阶级比一个世纪前的上层阶级享受到更多的奢侈品，而十九世纪末期并不是一个特别的阴暗年代。

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"We are fighting a war a half a century later that we lost for similar reasons a half a century earlier.

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And if you look at the whole story that he tells, that really means quite soon after the fall of the Mycenaean world, probably maybe a century earlier than what Finley suggests.

如果你关注一下他所描述的内容,就会发现那是在迈锡尼世界瓦解之后,可能要比芬利的观点还要早一个世纪

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That's a term that first entered the English language sometime in the mid-nineteenth century, but of course the concept goes earlier.

这个词在19世纪中期,第一次出现在英语中，当然概念产生得早些。

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There is little doubt that had the Constitution been drawn up a century earlier, in 1687, it would have had a thoroughgoing religious framework.

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It may have been a Hollywood blockbuster when it opened three-quarters of a century earlier, but it was beginning to fall apart.

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