英语词汇“centuries-old”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

C3. With the first element in the plural, forming adjectives relating to age and duration, as centuries-aged, centuries-long, centuries-old, etc., adjs. Cf. century-long adj., century-old adj. at Compounds 2.

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1843 City of London Mag. Apr. 22 The deep still hush..Is broken when falls from its crumbling walls Some centuries-aged stone.

1860 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 194 The rapt promises and lumine of seers..—these centuries-lasting songs.

1886 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Oct. 434/2 The strong arms of the centuries-old ivy caught and held him.

1897 Open Court Aug. 493 That Israel had the ability to carry on this centuries-long struggle deliberately and with final success, is due entirely to Moses and his work.

1908 Daily Chron. 15 June 1/3 The centuries-old division which has separated man and woman.

1991 P. James et al. Cent. of Darkness (1992) p. xvii The conventional picture of a centuries-long Dark Age descending over a vast area at the end of the Late Bronze Age.

2014 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Nov. God knows how Nolan is going to pull the centuries-spanning, disparate, many-stranded stories together to work as a television series.

单词	centuries-old
释义	> as lemmas centuries-old C3. With the first element in the plural, forming adjectives relating to age and duration, as centuries-aged, centuries-long, centuries-old, etc., adjs. Cf. century-long adj., century-old adj. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1843 City of London Mag. Apr. 22 The deep still hush..Is broken when falls from its crumbling walls Some centuries-aged stone. 1860 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 194 The rapt promises and lumine of seers..—these centuries-lasting songs. 1886 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Oct. 434/2 The strong arms of the centuries-old ivy caught and held him. 1897 Open Court Aug. 493 That Israel had the ability to carry on this centuries-long struggle deliberately and with final success, is due entirely to Moses and his work. 1908 Daily Chron. 15 June 1/3 The centuries-old division which has separated man and woman. 1991 P. James et al. Cent. of Darkness (1992) p. xvii The conventional picture of a centuries-long Dark Age descending over a vast area at the end of the Late Bronze Age. 2014 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Nov. God knows how Nolan is going to pull the centuries-spanning, disparate, many-stranded stories together to work as a television series. extracted from centuryn. < as lemmas
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