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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The last decade of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century were full of challenges and surprises, including several long and debilitating wars that are not yet over.

从二十世纪九十年代到二十一世纪的这数十年充满了挑战与意外，包括几场仍在持续的漫长又让人精疲力竭的战争。

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The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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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 first place, by and until the twentieth century, I guess, human beings tended to stay put.

首先,我觉得,20世纪以前,人们都喜欢定居

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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?

For industrializing nations in the first half of the twentieth century, food was the fundamental problem.

NEWYORKER: Testing, Testing