Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

在印刷术被发现之前,一个世纪等于一千年。

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If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

如果这可以被称为普通人的世纪,那么足球,在所有的运动中,无疑是他的运动……在一个被氢弹和凝固汽油弹所困扰的世界里,足球场是一个让理智和希望不受干扰的地方。

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

我认为本世纪发生的一件重要的事情是预期寿命翻了一番。