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单词 american century
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American Century
American Century n. (also with lower-case initial in the second element) (chiefly with the) the 20th century, regarded as dominated or influenced by the United States.Popularized by the essay The American Century by Henry Luce (1898–1967): see quot. 1941.
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > a century > specific centuries
nineteenth century1790
American Century1935
twenty-first century1964
1935 G. Stein in Choate Literary Mag. Feb. 8 The United States had the first instance of..Twentieth Century writing... The Twentieth Century has become the American Century.
1941 H. Luce Amer. Cent in Life 17 Feb. 64/2 The world of the 20th Century..must be to a significant degree an American Century.
1974 A. Ginsberg Let. 8 Sept. in A. Ginsberg & L. Ginsberg Family Business (2001) 373 I..think that the American Century has been a piece of egotism and violence equal to any in world's history.
2005 C. Stross Accelerando ii. 44 Pam is..a member of the first generation to grow up after the end of the American century.
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