首页millenniummillennium的意思
millennium
英 [mɪ'lɛnɪrm]
美[məˈlɛniəm]
- n. 千年期，千禧年；一千年，千年纪念；太平盛世，黄金时代
词态变化
复数: millennia; millenniums;
中文词源
millennium 一千年，千禧年
来自拉丁语mille,千，词源同million,annus,年，词源同annual.即一千年，千禧年。
英文词源
- millennium
- millennium: see mile
- millennium (n.)
- 1630s, from Modern Latin millennium, from Latin mille "thousand" (see million) + annus "year" (see annual); formed on analogy of biennium, triennium, etc. For vowel change, see biennial. First in English in sense of "1,000-year period of Christ's anticipated rule on Earth" (Rev. xx:1-5). Sense of "any 1,000-year period" first recorded 1711. Meaning "the year 2000" attested from 1970.
双语例句
- 1. the second millennium AD
- 公元第二个千年
来自《权威词典》
- 2. He lived long enough to see in the new millennium.
- 他活到了新千年.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.
- 全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. Acupuncture was practised in China as long ago as the third millennium BC.
- 中国早在公元前3,000年就已开始采用针灸疗法。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.
- 我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟.
来自《简明英汉词典》