millennium
英 [m?'l?n?rm]
美[m??l?ni?m]
- n. 千年期，千禧年；一千年，千年紀念；太平盛世，黃金時代
IELTS擴展詞匯TEM4GRE
詞態變化
復數:?millennia;?millenniums;
中文詞源
millennium 一千年，千禧年
來自拉丁語mille,千，詞源同million,annus,年，詞源同annual.即一千年，千禧年。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. the second millennium AD
- 公元第二個千年
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. He lived long enough to see in the new millennium.
- 他活到了新千年.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.
- 全世界都在倒計時迎接新千年的到來.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Acupuncture was practised in China as long ago as the third millennium BC.
- 中國早在公元前3,000年就已開始采用針灸療法。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.
- 我們靜候著時鐘滴答走過千年的最后幾秒鐘.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》