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。

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Because the blueberry wasn't domesticated until just about a century ago.

蓝莓是一世纪前才被驯化的。

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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”。

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Farmers in the United States, however, have grown soybeans for only about a century.

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Her statement points to a persistent worry, and it's a worry that exists even now in the twentieth century about the nature of Milton's power.

她的陈述不断透露着忧虑，这种忧虑一直持续到现在20世纪,关于弥尔顿之力量的本性的忧虑。

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If you want a real world example of this, think about the third Century B.C., someone can correct me afterwards.

现实世界也有这样的例子,大概在公元前三世纪,如果我说错了请大家来纠正

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Sinai came under Muslim rule in 641, about a century after the community's foundation.

ECONOMIST: Saint Catherine's monastery

The present conflict between Arabs and Jews in Palestine has been going on for about a century.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

About a century ago, a German horse named "Kluger Hans" (Clever Hans) was thought to be capable of addition and subtraction.

WSJ: The Brains of the Animal Kingdom