Improvements in childhood nutrition in the first quarter of the twentieth century, for example, gave today's elderly people a better start in life than their predecessors.

例如，二十世纪开始的二十多年中儿童营养状况改善，使今天的老年人比他们的先辈有了更好的人生起点。

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My first book was An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on Twentieth Century Literature, followed, two years later, by The Electric Life: Essays on Modern Poetry.

我的第一部专著是《人造的荒野；20世纪文学评论集》，两年后，《激情生活：现代诗歌评论集》面世。

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This is surprisingly effective and will get youinto a great and relaxed mood before even stepping into the first, second or twentieth meeting.

这个出乎意料的有效，让你在第一次，第二次，甚至第二十次会议前都心情放松。

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Mister Obama has dealt with many issues since becoming the nation's first African-American president on January twentieth.

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He's the most famous psychologist ever and he's had a profound influence on the twentieth and twenty-first century.

他是史上最著名的心理学家,对20世纪与21世纪,的心理学界都有着深远的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.

自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She has written about British book publishing in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and is a specialist in the use of quantitative methods in the study of the industry.

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As is true for most of us who grew up in the latter half of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group.

FORBES: Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

If education and human capital were the keys to economic prosperity in the twentieth century, they are even more important in the twenty-first.

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