It was the seventeenth century before Newton determined the freezing point of water.

那是17世纪，牛顿确定水的凝固点之前。

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Before the nineteenth century, scientists with an interest in the sea were few and far between.

在十九世纪以前，对海洋感兴趣的科学家寥寥无几。

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Before the nineteen century, scientists with an interest in the sea were few and far between.

在十九世纪以前，对海洋感兴趣的科学家寥寥无几。

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They are the Navajo - whose ancestors walked that land at least a century, perhaps many centuries, before the first Europeans arrived.

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As I've suggested before, his more conservative contemporaries were appalled by the proliferation of religious sects in mid-seventeenth-century England.

这如我以前所说，他的保守的同辈人,因17世纪中期英格兰迅速增多,的宗教派系而惊恐。

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I should have also mentioned another really important information technology that developed in the nineteenth century was the Postal Service, although we had mail before then.

我应该也提到过,另一个产生于19世纪的,非常重要的信息技术,就是邮政服务，虽然我们在此之前就有信件往来。

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The 32-year-old right-hander, organised and pragmatic at the crease, was troubled by cramp shortly before his century, but deservedly reached three figures six overs before the close.

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The exhibition covers the century before that visit and the century after.

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It took another decade before 20th Century-Fox announced its intention to make the film.

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