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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

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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。

英语词源

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.

权威例句

1. the second millennium AD

公元第二个千年

2. He lived long enough to see in the new millennium.

他活到了新千年.

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.

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。

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.

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